India, Nov. 13 -- Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten called a crisis meeting Friday with the senior leaders of his two coalition partners, seeking to ease open acrimony in the three-party minority administration less than nine months into its four-year term.

Jetten said he was seeking a reboot. He told lawmakers Thursday that his coalition "must make a very serious fresh start, in order to function much better together."

It is the latest crisis in a splintered political landscape in the Netherlands that has seen four general elections in a decade and eroded public trust in the nation's lawmakers. Jetten, the Netherlands' youngest premier, took office pledging to seek a new era of consensus among parties in the Dutch parliament, but has so ...