The Rainbow (Dutch: ''Regenboog'') was an alliance of
Dutch political parties, which included: the
Political Party of Radicals
The Political Party of Radicals ( nl, Politieke Partij Radikalen, PPR) was a progressive Christian and green political party in the Netherlands. The PPR played a relatively small role in Dutch politics and merged with other left-wing parties to fo ...
, the
Pacifist Socialist Party
The Pacifist Socialist Party ( nl, Pacifistisch Socialistische Partij, PSP) was a democratic socialist Dutch socialist political party. The PSP played a small role in Dutch politics. It is one of the predecessors of the GreenLeft.
Party histor ...
, the
Evangelical People's Party and the
Communist Party of the Netherlands
The Communist Party of the Netherlands ( nl, Communistische Partij Nederland, , CPN) was a Dutch communist party. The party was founded in 1909 as the Social-Democratic Party (SDP) and merged with the Pacifist Socialist Party, the Political Party ...
.
The parties entered in the
1989 European Parliament elections with a common list. The alliance won 7% of the vote, which gave it two seats in the European Parliament, one was taken by
Nel van Dijk (CPN) and another by
Herman Verbeek
Herman may refer to:
People
* Herman (name), list of people with this name
* Saint Herman (disambiguation)
* Peter Noone (born 1947), known by the mononym Herman
Places in the United States
* Herman, Arkansas
* Herman, Michigan
* Herman, Minneso ...
(PPR). In the
1984 European Parliament elections the parties, together with the
Green Party of the Netherlands had also formed a common list called
Green Progressive Accord
The Green Progressive Accord (Dutch: ''Groen Progressief Akkoord'') was an alliance of Dutch political parties: Political Party of Radicals (PPR), Pacifist Socialist Party (PSP), Communist Party of the Netherlands (CPN) and Green Party of the ...
. The alliance was renamed on instigation of the PSP, which disliked the term "green".
[Politieke Partij Radikalen (PPR)](_blank)
in Paul Lucardie en Gerrit Voerman. 'Kroniek 1989. Overzicht van de partijpolitieke gebeurtenissen van het jaar 1989, in: Jaarboek 1989
Documentatiecentrum Nederlandse Politieke Partijen, Groningen, 1990 42-46. The alliance executive was chaired by
Wim de Boer.
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on LeoPlatvoet.nl
In the 1989 parliamentary election the three parties together formed a common list called GreenLeft
GroenLinks (, ) 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 t ...
. In 1990 the parties dissolved and GreenLeft was formed as a political party.
European election result
References
See also
* List of GreenLeft Members of the European Parliament
{{European Parliament, (Netherlands)
GroenLinks