The Zijlstra cabinet was the

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of the

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from 22 November 1966 until 5 April 1967. The cabinet was formed by the

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(KVP) and the

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 m ...

(ARP) after the fall of the previous Cabinet Cals. The

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was a

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coalition and had a minority in the

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with former Protestant Leader

Jelle Zijlstra Jelle Zijlstra (; 27 August 1918 – 23 December 2001) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) now the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and economist who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 22 No ...

a former Minister of Finance serving as

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and dual served as

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. Former

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Prime Minister

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served as

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and Minister of Transport and Water Management, 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 ...

continued as Deputy Prime Minister,

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and the responsibility for Suriname and Netherlands Antilles Affairs from previous

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. The cabinet served in the middle of the tumultuous

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, domestically it had to deal with the

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and its primary objective was to make preparations for a

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. Following the

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the cabinet continued in a demissionary capacity until it was replaced by the

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Formation

Following the fall of the

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the Labour Party (PvdA) left the coalition and the

and the

formed a

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Term

Such a transitional cabinet is not supposed to take important decisions, but it still resolved the issue over the introduction of

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, which had been a major issue in the two previous cabinets, with the omroepwet, which allowed commercial blocks on public television (between shows), despite protests by

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and part of CHU.

Cabinet Members

: :

Trivia

* Four cabinet members (later) served as Prime Minister:

(1966–1967),

(1959–1963),

(1971–1973) and

Piet de Jong Petrus Jozef Sietse "Piet" de Jong (; 3 April 1915 – 27 July 2016) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Catholic People's Party (KVP) now the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and naval officer who served as Prime Minister of the Neth ...

(1967–1971). * The age difference between oldest cabinet member Jan de Quay (born 1901) and the youngest cabinet member

Hans Grosheide Johan Hendrik "Hans" Grosheide (6 August 1930 – 18 December 2022) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) and later the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and jurist. Biography Grosheide attended a Gymnasi ...

(born 1930) was . * Six cabinet members had previous experience as scholars and professors: Jelle Zijlstra (Public Economics), Jan de Quay (Applied Psychology and Business Theory),

Koos Verdam Pieter Jacobus "Koos" Verdam (15 January 1915 – 11 March 1998) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA). The reformed Verdam was a professor for Roman law and in ...

(International and Roman Law),

Gerard Veldkamp Gerardus Mattheus Johannes "Gerard" Veldkamp (27 June 1921 – 15 September 1990) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Catholic People's Party (KVP) now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and economist. Veldkamp applied at ...

(Microeconomics), Isaäc Arend Diepenhorst (Criminal Law and Procedure) and

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(Health Economics), both Koos Verdam and Isaäc Arend Diepenhorst had also served as Rector Magnificus of the Free University Amsterdam.

References

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