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The Kunduz coalition is a name used for the ad-hoc majority coalition of five parties in the Dutch
House of Representatives
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which was sometimes used when the minority
Rutte government could not rely on the support of the
Freedom Party in 2011-2012. It consisted of the government parties
CDA and
VVD
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, together with the opposition parties
Christen Unie,
Groen Links
GroenLinks (, ) is a Green politics, green List of political parties in the Netherlands, political party in the Netherlands.
It was formed on 1 March 1989 from the merger of four Left-wing politics, left-wing parties: the Communist Party of th ...
and
D'66
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. It totalled 77 seats of the 150 total.
The coalition was formed in 2011, during the debates about the
Kunduz
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police mission - the three opposition parties collaborated in their negotiations with the minority government and negotiated conditions on which the plan would go through. The same majority was used in April 2012 when the government collapsed after it failed to reach agreement with the Freedom Party after seven weeks of negotiations on budget cuts for 2013. After three days of negotiating, the three parties and government were able to reach agreement on a budget in time for a European Commission deadline.
Politics of the Netherlands