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

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(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)
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.Onderhandelen, onderhandelen, onderhandelen...
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.

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