Lack of results sends confidence in Jetten I Cabinet plummeting after 100 days in office

After 100 days in office, voters are much less enthusiastic about the Jetten I Cabinet. Mainly due to a lack of results, confidence in the minority Cabinet plummeted from one-third when taking office to only 22 percent now, according to a RTL Nieuws survey among 18,000 voters.

For comparison, 37 percent of voters had confidence in the right-wing Schoof I Cabinet when it took office. Four months later, that was 36 percent. The Jetten I Cabinet is even losing support among coalition voters. Only a majority of D66 voters still have confidence in the Cabinet. Among CDA and VVD voters, nearly half of the confidence has evaporated.

Only 23 percent of voters still think the Cabinet will find majorities for important decisions. 66 percent have given up that hope. In the coalition, only around 40 percent of voters still have hope that the minority Cabinet will work. D66 voters are the most positive (58 percent), while VVD voters are the most pessimistic (22 percent).

A big problem is a lack of visible results. The Jetten I Cabinet already had to scrap its plans to accelerate the increase in state pension age for the AOW pension benefit and is still butting heads with trade unions about planned cuts to unemployment (WW) and disability benefits (WIA). The minority coalition also hasn’t secured a parliamentary or Senate majority for these cuts.

The asylum registration center in Ter Apel is massively overcrowded again, while few municipalities are working on extra shelters, and those that are face violent protests. In the coming weeks, the Cabinet also has to present its plans to reduce nitrogen emissions - a sensitive topic in the agriculture sector that has always sparked massive farmers' protests in the past.

Confidence in Rob Jetten as Prime Minister has also dropped significantly. At the start of the Cabinet, nearly half of voters had confidence in the new Prime Minister. Now, that figure is down to a third. Voters still find Jetten likeable and trustworthy, but are disappointed by his leadership and his failure to connect people and parties.