Prime Minister Mark Rutte won parliamentary elections in the Netherlands on Wednesday. Preliminary results put his liberal VVD in the lead to form the next government.
The Christian Democrats (CDA), left-liberal D66 and nationalist Freedom Party (PVV) would share second place.
The Greens have overtaken Labor as the largest party on the left.
Given that all major parties have ruled out a pact with the Freedom Party, a coalition of four or five parties is likely to be formed in the center.
Turnout was 80 percent, the highest in three decades.
