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Political Party Radicals
The Political Party of Radicals (, PPR) was a Christian left, progressive Christian (''radicaal-christelijke'') and green politics, green list of political parties in the Netherlands, political party in the Netherlands. The PPR played a relatively small role in Dutch politics and merged with other left-wing parties to form GroenLinks in 1991. History Before 1968 The foundation of the PPR is linked to formation of the De Jong cabinet and the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA). After the 1967 Dutch general election, 1967 general election, it became clear that a centre-right politics, centre-right cabinet would be formed by the Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) and Christian Historical Union (CHU), the Catholic People's Party (KVP) and the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). Progressivism, Progressive forces within the KVP and ARP had hoped for the formation of a centre-left cabinet with the Labour Party (Netherlands), Labour Party (PvdA) without the participation of the CHU ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Aarden
Jacobus Maria "Jacques" Aarden (11 August 1914 – 23 November 1997) was a Dutch politician. Career In 1940, Aarden finished his education in economics. After the World War II, Second World War he joined the new Catholic People's Party, even though he also considered joining the Labour Party (Netherlands), Labour Party. He became a member of the Municipal council (Netherlands), municipal council in Voorburg in 1946, a position he would hold for 20 years. On 12 July 1962 he joined the House of Representatives (Netherlands), House of Representatives. He often voted in favour of pieces of left-progressive legislation, unlike most of his party. Tensions in the Catholic People's Party caused the so-called ‘Night of Schmelzer’ which ended the KVP-Anti-Revolutionary Party, ARP-Labour Cals cabinet. When the party began drifting towards cooperation with Freedom and Democracy Party, Freedom and Democracy instead of the liberal People's Party Aarden and his allies responded by writing a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |