The Cabinet will meet with leaders of both coalition and opposition parties starting next week to discuss the government’s upcoming budget, sources confirmed following a report by De Telegraaf. Prime Minister Rob Jetten leads a minority Cabinet, consisting of D66, VVD, and CDA, and he will need to cobble together enough support to secure majorities in both chambers of parliament.

The exact participants in the talks have yet to be announced. The negotiations are expected to take place at Jetten’s Ministry of General Affairs, instead of the Catshuis, his official residence.

The center-right minority coalition holds only 66 of the 150 seats in the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of Dutch Parliament. Securing a majority requires finding at least 10 additional votes from the opposition. The Cabinet could look to the left and work with PRO, or seek backing from right-wing parties such as JA21, SGP and the Groep Markuszower faction.

The options are more limited In the Eerste Kamer, the Dutch Senate, where the coalition represents just 27 of the 75 seats. Here, the Cabinet will likely need to find support from either the left-wing PRO predecessor GroenLinks-PvdA, which is the largest party with 14 senators, or the BBB. The right-wing faction is the second-largest in the Eerste Kamer, with 11 senators in office.

As the coalition needs 11 votes for a majority here, they would either need backing from one of the two biggest Senate factions, or a hodgepodge of smaller groups and independents.

Initial cross-spectrum negotiations collapsed before the summer recess. In response, Prime Minister Jetten and Finance Minister Eelco Heinen have scheduled two weeks of emergency crisis talks in mid-August to break the deadlock.

If these talks fail, they will be forced to present the budget directly to parliament without pre-arranged backing, a high-stakes political gamble that could trigger a government collapse.