Around nine months after the parliamentary elections in the Netherlands, the four previous ruling parties agreed on a new coalition agreement.
This means that former and currently executive Prime Minister Mark Rutte can form his fourth cabinet in a row.
The right-wing liberal VVD von Rutte, the left-wing liberal D66, the Christian Democratic CDA and the ChristenUnie want to continue the previous coalition, a spokesman for the negotiations announced on Monday in The Hague.
It was the longest coalition negotiations in the country's history.
The contract is now to be submitted to the parliamentary groups for approval and presented to parliament on Wednesday.
It is certain that Rutte will then be charged with forming the government again.
It is possible, however, that his new cabinet will not be sworn in by the king until January.
54-year-old Rutte has been prime minister for eleven years, making it the country's long-serving head of government.
The Rutte government resigned about eleven months ago over a child allowance scandal.
It was about wrongly reclaimed child allowances, which had driven thousands of families into financial need.
Only two months later the regular parliamentary elections took place, in which the VVD was again the strongest force, ahead of the left-liberal D66.
The formation of a new coalition was then long delayed after another scandal involving Prime Minister Rutte.
A large part of Parliament had given up on him after a lie.
He had tried to get a critical MP away from Parliament.