A rump cabinet is a cabinet from which one or more

coalition A coalition is formed when two or more people or groups temporarily work together to achieve a common goal. The term is most frequently used to denote a formation of power in political, military, or economic spaces. Formation According to ''A G ...

partners have withdrawn and which has minority support in

parliament In modern politics and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: Representation (politics), representing the Election#Suffrage, electorate, making laws, and overseeing ...

Netherlands

In the

Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...

a rump cabinet is not the same as a

demissionary cabinet A demissionary cabinet () is a type of caretaker government, caretaker cabinet of the Netherlands, cabinet or provisional government in the politics of the Netherlands, Netherlands. Overview The Dutch demissionary cabinet continues the current g ...

where the entire cabinet resigns and the full existing coalition runs the country until a new cabinet takes power after elections have been held. With a demissionary cabinet

decides which issues are controversial, which bars the cabinet from drafting legislation concerning them. A rump cabinet can take care of such issues but it does not have a majority in parliament and thus needs approval by opposition parties, which make it likely that the rump parliament will take great care dealing with controversial issues. Generally the rump cabinet will only take care of going government concerns (as a caretaker cabinet) as well as preparing for elections. For the formation of a rump cabinet the

Monarch A monarch () is a head of stateWebster's II New College Dictionary. "Monarch". Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. Life tenure, for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest ...

will appoint an informateur and later a

formateur A formateur (French for "someone who forms, who constitutes") is a politician who is appointed to lead the formation of a coalition government, after either a general election or the collapse of a previous government. The role of the formateur i ...

, just like with a regular

cabinet formation Cabinet or The Cabinet may refer to: Furniture * Cabinetry, a box-shaped piece of furniture with doors and/or drawers * Display cabinet, a piece of furniture with one or more transparent glass sheets or transparent polycarbonate sheets * Filin ...

after elections.

Rump cabinets in the Netherlands

* Second Beel cabinet 1958-1959 *: (after the fall of

Second Drees cabinet The Second Drees Cabinet of the Netherlands, cabinet, also called the Third Drees cabinet was the Executive (government), executive branch of the Politics of the Netherlands, Dutch Government from 2 September 1952 until 13 October 1956. The cabi ...

) * Zijlstra cabinet 1966-1967 *: (after the fall of Cals cabinet) * Second Biesheuvel cabinet 1972-1973 *: ( DS'70 leaves the cabinet) * Third Van Agt cabinet 1982 *:( PvdA leaves the cabinet) *

Third Balkenende cabinet The third Balkenende cabinet was the executive branch of the Government of the Netherlands from 7 July 2006 until 22 February 2007. The cabinet was formed by the Christian-democratic Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) and the conservative-libe ...

2006 *:( D66 leaves the cabinet) {{Netherlands-poli-stub Politics of the Netherlands Cabinet