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The Party for Freedom (Dutch: Partij voor de Vrijheid, PVV) is a Dutch nationalist and right-wing populist political party in the Netherlands. It's ideology consists of Right-wing populism, Dutch nationalism, National liberalism, an Anti-Islam stance, and Anti-immigration stance and Euroscepticism. The PVV is the second largest party after the liberal conservative VVD party in parliament.


Forum for Democracy (Dutch: Forum voor Democratie, FvD) is a national-conservative, Eurosceptic political party in the Netherlands, founded as a think tank by Thierry Baudet who has been the party's leader since 22 September 2016. The party first participated in elections in the 2017 general election, winning two seats in the House of Representatives.


Labour party ad with images from the Social Democratic past, the them of the International socialist anthem, with Labour politicians and mayors like mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb of Amsterdam and Khadija Arib (Arabic: خديجة عريب‎; born 10 October 1960) is a Moroccan-Dutch politician of the Labour Party serving as Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands since 12 December 2015.

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The People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (Dutch: Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie, VVD; Dutch pronunciation: [vɔl(ə)kspɑrtɛi voːr vrɛiɦɛit ɛn deːmoːkraːˈtsi]) is a conservative liberal political party in the Netherlands.

The VVD, whose forerunner was the Freedom Party, supports private enterprise and economic liberalism.

Mark Rutte has been the party's leader since 31 May 2006 and on 14 October 2010 became Prime Minister of the Netherlands, marking the first time that the VVD led a government. The First Rutte cabinet's parliamentary majority was provided by the Christian Democratic Appeal and the Party for Freedom, but this majority became unstable when the latter refused to support austerity measures amid the Euro crisis. Therefore, a general election was held in September 2012. The VVD remained the largest party, with 41 seats. From November 2012 until March 2017, the VVD was the senior partner in the Second Rutte cabinet, a "purple" coalition government with the Labour Party. VVD remained the largest party in the March 2017 election (though was reduced to 33 seats); therefore, Rutte was expected to remain as Prime Minister. However, continuing the existing coalition was impossible, as the Labour Party had lost 29 seats, therefore a centre-right coalition was negotiated with the D66, CU and CDA, which became the Third Rutte Cabinet.

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The Christian Democratic Appeal (Dutch: Christen-Democratisch Appèl, pronounced [krɪstə(n)deːmoːkraːtis ɑˈpɛl]; CDA) is a Christian-democratic political party in the Netherlands. The CDA was originally formed in 1977 from a confederation of the Catholic People's Party, the calvinist Anti-Revolutionary Party and the Christian Historical Union, and has participated in all but three governments since then. Sybrand van Haersma Buma has been the Leader of the Christian Democratic Appeal since 18 May 2012.

The party suffered severe losses in the 2010 general election, losing half of its seats and falling to fourth place in the House of Representatives. From 2010 to 2012 consequently, the CDA was a junior coalition partner in a right-wing minority First Rutte cabinet with the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), supported in the States General by the Party for Freedom (PVV). Subsequently, the CDA again lost a considerable number of seats in the 2012 general election, dropping to fifth place. During the 2017 general election, the party won 19 seats (third place) and is forming the current centre-right Third Rutte cabinet with the VVD, D66 and CU.

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Democrats 66 (Dutch: Democraten 66, D66, Dutch pronunciation: [ˌdeː zɛsə(n)ˈzɛstəx]; officially Politieke Partij Democraten 66, Dutch pronunciation: [poːliˈtikə pɑrtɛi deːmoːˈkraːtə(n) zɛsə(n)ˈzɛstəx]) is a social-liberal political party in the Netherlands. Its name originates from the year in which it was founded.

D66 was formed in 1966 by a group of politically unaligned young intellectuals, led by journalist Hans van Mierlo. The party's main objective was to democratise the political system. In the 1967 general election, the party won 7 of the 150 seats in the House of Representatives; no new party had ever gained that many seats before. The electoral history of the party is characterised by large fluctuations. They won a maximum of 24 seats, and currently (following the Dutch general election, 2017) they have 19. The party was in government from 1973 to 1977, 1981 to 1982, 1994 to 2002 and 2003 to 2006 and is again since 2017. Over time the party began to emphasise other issues in addition to democratic reform, creating a social liberal programme.

In addition to its seats in the House of Representatives, it holds 10 in the Senate and 4 in the European Parliament. The parliamentary leader is Rob Jetten. The party has a growing number of elected local and provincial politicians and supplies a relatively large proportion of mayors, who are appointed. The party's voters are concentrated in larger cities, especially among people who hold a university degree, and in towns with an above-average number of wealthy citizens.

D66 is a member of the Liberal International and the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE).


Henricus Antonius Franciscus Maria Oliva "Hans" van Mierlo (Dutch pronunciation: ['hans fan 'mirlo]; 18 August 1931 – 11 March 2010) was a Dutch politician and founder of the Democrats 66 (D66) party. He served as Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 22 August 1994 to 3 August 1998 and Minister of Defence from 11 September 1981 to 4 November 1982. He was known for his abilities as a team leader, consensus builder and an advocate for Third Way-politics.

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GroenLinks (Dutch pronunciation: [ɣrunˈlɪŋks]; English: GreenLeft, West Frisian: GrienLinks, GL) is a green political party in the Netherlands. It was formed on 1 March 1989 from the merger of four left-wing parties: the Communist Party of the Netherlands, the Pacifist Socialist Party, the Political Party of Radicals and the Evangelical People's Party.

After disappointing results in the 1989 and 1994 general elections, the nascent party fared particularly well in the 1998 and 2002 elections. The party's leader at that time, Paul Rosenmöller, provided opposition against the first and second cabinets of Wim Kok. In 2002, however, the political climate had changed. Rosenmöller participated in the opposition against the rise of Pim Fortuyn. At a party congress, he described Fortuyn's political position as "not just right but extreme right". He lost the 2002 elections after the death of Fortuyn. In the hardened political climate after the murder of Fortuyn, serious threats against Rosenmöller's life and family were made. Because of this, Rosenmöller left politics. His successor as leader of the GroenLinks party was Femke Halsema, the present mayor of Amsterdam.

Groen[/b]Links describes itself as "green", "social" and "tolerant". The party holds 14 seats in the House of Representatives, 5 in the Senate and 2 in the European Parliament. The current Leader of GroenLinks and chair of the House parliamentary group is Jesse Klaver. The party is in opposition against the governing Third Rutte cabinet. The party has over 100 local councillors and it participates in the government of sixteen of the twenty largest municipalities. The party's voters are concentrated in larger cities, especially those with a university.

The party has 21,901 members which are organised in over 250 municipal branches. The party congress is open to all members. Groen[/b]Links is a member of the Global Greens and the European Green Party. The party's number of seats fell from 10 to 4 seats in the 2012 election, before increasing to 14 in the 2017 general election.[/i]

[pieter]

The first sentence is wrong, it was before the elections. Today the SP is the 6th largest party after VVD, PVV, CDA, D66, and GroenLinks. And the present leader is not Emile Roemer, but Lilian Marijnissen. Emile Roemer was party leader from 2010 until 2017.

The Socialist Party (Dutch: Socialistische Partij) is a left-wing, democratic socialist political party in the Netherlands.

After the 2006 general election, the Socialist Party became one of the major parties of the Netherlands with 25 seats of 150, an increase of 16 seats. In the 2010 general election the party obtained 15 seats. In the 2012 general election they maintained those 15 seats, but in the 2017 general election the party lost one and went to 14 seats. The party has been in opposition since it was formed.


This ad looks like an old fashionate communist propaganda movie. The party leader who speaks to the workers in Rotterdam. Art the end the workers shout, Action, action, action!

[pieter]

Next to these parties you have the smaller Calvinist Christian ChristenUnie and SGP parties, the Party for Animals and the Party for elders 50+.



The 50PLUS (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈfɛiftɪx plʏs]), abbreviated to 50+, is a pensioners' interests political party in the Netherlands. The party was founded in 2009 by Maurice Koopman, Alexander Münninghoff, and Jan Nagel, a politician formerly connected to the Labour Party and Livable Netherlands. Henk Krol has been the Leader since 2016.

The party first participated in elections during the Dutch provincial elections of 2011. During these elections the party obtained 9 seats in the States-Provincial. In the Dutch Senate election of 2011 the members of the States-Provincial elected the members of the new Senate. During these elections, the party won one seat in the Senate. During the Dutch general election of 2012 the party obtained 2 seats.

[Jaga]

Hello Pieter,

thanks for the review of the current Dutch party system. I guess I should join "Party for elders 50+"

[pieter]

For you Jaga with subtitles.