CDA Loyalists
The CDA loyalists were a group of relatively progressive members of the Dutch House of Representatives (Netherlands), House of Representatives for the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) who were skeptical of the first Van Agt cabinet (1977–1981), which comprised the CDA and the conservative liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (CDA). At the end of the 1977 Dutch cabinet formation, 1977 cabinet formation, which had started with unsuccessful negotiations between CDA and the socialist Labour Party (Netherlands), Labour Party (PvdA), they voted against the coalition agreement between the VVD and the CDA. Although they voted against the agreement, they were willing to loyally support the cabinet, hence the name. These loyalists had an influential position during the cabinet period, because the cabinet only had a majority of 77 out of 150 seats including them. On issues such as income policy, nuclear energy, nuclear armament, and policies related to the apartheid regime in S ...
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