The Second Biesheuvel cabinet was the
executive branch of the
Dutch Government
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from 9 August 1972 until 11 May 1973. The cabinet was formed by the
christian-democratic
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It was conceived as a combination of modern democratic ...
Catholic People's Party
The Catholic People's Party ( nl, Katholieke Volkspartij, KVP) was a Catholic Christian democratic political party in the Netherlands. The party was founded in 1945 as a continuation of the Roman Catholic State Party, which was a continuation of ...
(KVP),
Anti-Revolutionary Party
The Anti-Revolutionary Party ( nl, Anti-Revolutionaire Partij, ARP) was a Protestant conservative and Christian democratic political party in the Netherlands. The party was founded in 1879 by Abraham Kuyper, a neo-Calvinist theologian and mi ...
(ARP) and
Christian Historical Union
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(CHU) and the
conservative-liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
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(VVD) after the fall of the previous
Cabinet Biesheuvel I. The cabinet was a
centre-right
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caretaker government and had a
minority in the
House of Representatives
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.
Protestant Leader Barend Biesheuvel
Barend Willem Biesheuvel (; 5 April 1920 – 29 April 2001) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) now the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and jurist who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 6 J ...
of the Anti-Revolutionary Party served as
Prime Minister
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. Prominent
Catholic politician Roelof Nelissen
Roelof Johannes Nelissen (4 April 1931 – 18 July 2019) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Catholic People's Party (KVP) now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and businessman.
Biography
Nelissen attended a Gymnasium i ...
served as
Deputy Prime Minister
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and
Minister of Finance
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and former
Liberal Leader Molly Geertsema
Willem Jacob "Molly" Geertsema II (; 18 October 1918 – 27 June 1991) was a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and jurist.
Geertsema attended a Gymnasium in The Hague from June 1930 until June 1937 and appl ...
served as Deputy Prime Minister and
Minister of the Interior
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. The
rump cabinet
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Netherlands
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served until the
election of 1972.
Formation
Following the fall of the
First Biesheuvel cabinet the
Democratic Socialists '70
The Democratic Socialists '70 ( nl, Democratisch Socialisten '70, DS'70) was a social-democratic political party in the Netherlands.
History
DS'70 was founded on 4 April 1970 as the result of a split from the Labour Party (PvdA). In June 1970, ...
(DS'70) left the coalition and the
Catholic People's Party
The Catholic People's Party ( nl, Katholieke Volkspartij, KVP) was a Catholic Christian democratic political party in the Netherlands. The party was founded in 1945 as a continuation of the Roman Catholic State Party, which was a continuation of ...
,
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
The People's Party for Freedom and Democracy ( nl, Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie ; VVD) is a conservative-liberal Andeweg, R. and G. Irwin ''Politics and Governance in the Netherlands'', Basingstoke (Palgrave) p.49 political party in ...
,
Anti-Revolutionary Party
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and the
Christian Historical Union
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formed a
Rump cabinet
A rump cabinet is a cabinet from which one or more coalition partners have withdrawn and which has minority support in parliament.
Netherlands
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. Because the following negotiations for forming the next
cabinet took rather long, the cabinet took further reaching decisions than a caretaker cabinet is usually supposed to do.
Cabinet Members
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References
External links
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Kabinet-Biesheuvel I en IIParlement & Politiek
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Kabinet-BiesheuvelRijksoverheid
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1972 establishments in the Netherlands
1973 disestablishments in the Netherlands
Cabinets established in 1972
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Caretaker governments
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