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Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...

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Wim Kok Willem "Wim" Kok (; 29 September 1938 – 20 October 2018) was a Dutch politician and trade union leader who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 22 August 1994 until 22 July 2002.Second Rutte cabinet with the

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 i ...

. The Leader of the Labour Party is

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. The party fell to nine seats in the House of Representatives at the 2017 general election, making it the seventh-largest faction in the chamber—its worst showing ever. However, the party rebounded with a first-place finish in the 2019 European Parliament election in the Netherlands, winning 6 of 26 seats, with 19% of the vote. The party is a member of the European

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and the global

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. In the

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, where the Labour Party has 6 seats, it is part of the

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.

History

1946–1965

During the German Occupation of the Netherlands in the

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, a group of prominent Dutchmen of all democratic political ideologies were interned as hostages in St. Michielsgestel by the German occupation authorities. They came to the consensus that the pre-war fragmentation of Dutch political life, known as " Pillarization", should be overcome after the war in a so-called '' doorbraak''. These people formed the Dutch People's Movement (NVB) immediately after the war ended in 1945. The new movement promoted the foundation of the Labour Party (''Partij van de Arbeid – PvdA'')) on 9 February 1946, through a merger of three pre-war parties, namely the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP), the social liberal Free-thinking Democratic League (VDB) and progressive-Protestant Christian Democratic Union (CDU). They were joined by individuals from

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''Christofoor'', as well as some of the more progressive members of the

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parties Christian Historical Union (CHU) and Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP). The founding Congress was chaired by NVB-member

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. The founders of the PvdA wanted to create a broad party, breaking with the historic tradition of pillarisation. The party combined

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with liberal democrats and progressive Christians. However, the party was unable to break pillarisation. Instead the new party renewed the close ties that the SDAP had with other socialist organisations (see linked organisations). In 1948, some of the left-liberal members, led by former VDB leader Pieter Oud, left the PvdA after concluding it had become too socialist for their liking. Together with the Freedom Party, they formed the

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 i ...

(VVD), a conservative liberal party. Between 1946 and 1958, the PvdA led centre-left

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s with the

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(KVP), and combinations of VVD, ARP and CHU, with the PvdA's

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as prime minister. The KVP and the PvdA together had a large majority in parliament. Under his leadership the Netherlands recovered from the war, began to build its

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and

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became

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. After the cabinet crisis of 1958, the PvdA was replaced by the VVD. The PvdA was in opposition until 1965. The electoral support of PvdA voters began to decline.

1965–1989

In 1965 a conflict in the KVP-ARP-CHU-VVD cabinet made continuation of the government impossible. The three

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, Christian-influenced parties turned towards the PvdA. Together they formed the

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, with KVP leader

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as prime minister. This cabinet was also short lived and conflict ridden. The conflicts culminated in the fall of the Cals cabinet over

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. Meanwhile, a younger generation was attempting to gain control of the PvdA. A group of young PvdA members, calling themselves the

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, changed the party. The New Left believed the party should become oriented towards the new social movements, adopting their anti-parliamentary strategies and their issues, such as women's liberation,

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al conservation and

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development. Prominent New Left members were

Jan Nagel Johan Georg "Jan" Nagel (born 20 June 1939) is a Dutch politician who was a member of the Labour Party, and later formed his own parties. He is currently in the Pensioners' Party 50PLUS. Nagel started his career in his twenties on VARA-Radi ...

,

André van der Louw Arie Andries "Andre" van der Louw (9 August 1933 – 20 October 2005) was a Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA) and journalist. Van der Louw worked as a civil servant for municipality of The Hague from November 1953 until October 1957. ...

and

Bram Peper Abraham "Bram" Peper (13 February 1940 – 20 August 2022) was a Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA). Early life After finishing the Hogere Burgerschool, Peper studied social sciences at the University of Amsterdam until 1965 and eco ...

. One of their early victories followed the fall of the Cals cabinet. The party Congress adopted a motion that made it impossible for the PvdA to govern with the KVP and its Protestant allies. In response to the growing power of the New Left group, a group of older,

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party members, led by Willem Drees' son, Willem Drees Jr. founded the New Right. They split in 1970, after it was clear that they had lost the conflict with the New Left, and founded a new moderate Social Democratic party, Democratic Socialists '70 (DS70). Under the New Left, the PvdA started a strategy of polarisation, striving for a cabinet based on a progressive majority in parliament. In order to form that cabinet the PvdA allied itself with the social liberal party

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(D66) and the progressive Christian Political Party of Radicals (PPR). The alliance was called the Progressive Accord (PAK). In the

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and 1972 elections, these three parties promised to form a cabinet with a radical common programme after the elections. They were unable to gain a majority in either election. In 1971, they were kept out of cabinet, and the party of former PvdA members, DS70, became a partner of the

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. In the 1972 elections, neither the PvdA and its allies or the KVP and its allies were able to gain a majority. The two sides were forced to work together. Joop den Uyl, the leader of the PvdA, led the cabinet. The cabinet was an extra-parliamentary cabinet and it was composed of members of the three progressive parties and members of the KVP and the ARP. The cabinet attempted to radically reform government, society and the economy, and a wide range of progressive social reforms were enacted during its time in office, such as significant increases in welfare payments and the indexation of benefits and the minimum wage to the cost of living. The PvdA also faced economic decline and was riddled with personal and ideological conflicts. Especially, the relationship between Prime Minister Den Uyl and the KVP

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, Van Agt was very problematic. The conflict culminated just before the 1977 elections, the cabinet fell. The 1977 general election were won by the PvdA, but the ideological and personal conflict between Van Agt and Den Uyl prevented the formation of a new centre-left cabinet. After very long cabinet formation talks, the

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(CDA), itself a new

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political formation composed of KVP, CHU and ARP, formed government with the VVD, based on a very narrow majority. The PvdA was left in opposition. In the 1981 general election, the incumbent CDA-VVD cabinet lost their majority. The CDA remained the largest party, but it was forced to co-operate with the PvdA and D66 (the PPR had left the alliance, after losing the 1977 elections). In the new cabinet led by Van Agt, Den Uyl returned to cabinet, now as Deputy Prime Minister. The personal and ideological conflict between Van Agt and Den Uyl culminated in the fall of the cabinet just months after it was formed. The VVD and the CDA regained their majority in the 1982 general election and retained it in the 1986 general election. The PvdA was left in opposition. During this period, the party began to reform. In 1986, Den Uyl left politics, appointing former

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leader

Wim Kok Willem "Wim" Kok (; 29 September 1938 – 20 October 2018) was a Dutch politician and trade union leader who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 22 August 1994 until 22 July 2002.

1989–2010

After the 1989 general election, the PvdA returned to cabinet together with the CDA. Kok became Deputy Prime Minister to CDA leader Ruud Lubbers. The PvdA accepted the major economic reforms the previous Lubbers cabinets made, including

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of public enterprises and reform of the welfare state. They continued these policies in this cabinet. The cabinet faced heavy protest from the unions and saw major political conflict within the PvdA itself. In the 1994 general election, the PvdA and CDA coalition lost its majority in parliament. The PvdA, however, emerged as the biggest party. Kok formed a government together with the conservative liberal VVD and social liberal D66. The so-called '' purple government'' was a political novelty, because it was the first since 1918 without any ministers from the CDA or its predecessors. The

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continued the Lubbers-era economic reforms, but combined this with a progressive outlook on ethical questions and promises of political reform. Kok became a very popular Prime Minister; he was not a partisan figure but combined successful technocratic policies with the charisma of a national leader. In the 1998 general election, the cabinet was rewarded for its stewardship of the economy. The PvdA and the VVD increased their seats, at the cost of D66; the

Second Kok cabinet The second Kok cabinet, also called the second Purple cabinet was the executive branch of the Dutch government from 3 August 1998 until 22 July 2002. The cabinet was a continuation of the previous first Kok cabinet and was formed by the social ...

was formed. The PvdA was expected to perform very well in the 2002 general election. Kok left politics leaving the leadership of the party to his preferred successor

Ad Melkert Adrianus Petrus Wilhelmus "Ad" Melkert (; born 12 February 1956) is a Dutch politician and diplomat of the Labour Party (Netherlands), Labour Party (PvdA) who has served as a Council of State (Netherlands), Member of the Council of State since 20 ...

. But the political rise of Pim Fortuyn frustrated these hopes. The PvdA lost the 2002 elections, and the party's parliamentary representation fell from 45 seats to 23. The loss was blamed on the uncharismatic new leader Melkert, the perceived arrogance of the PvdA and the inability to answer to the

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issues Fortuyn raised, especially

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and integration. Melkert resigned as party leader and was replaced by Jeltje van Nieuwenhoven. The PvdA was kept out of cabinet. The government formed by CDA, VVD and the

Pim Fortuyn List The Pim Fortuyn List ( nl, Lijst Pim Fortuyn, LPF) was a political party in the Netherlands named after its eponymous founder Pim Fortuyn, a former university professor and political columnist. The party was considered populist, right-wing pop ...

(LPF) fell after a very short period. Bos Dutch politician kabinet Balkenende IV

Meanwhile,

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, Undersecretary in the second purple cabinet, was elected leader of the PvdA in a referendum among PvdA members, being elected closely to

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. He started to democratise the party organisation and began an ideological reorientation. In the 2003 general election, Wouter Bos managed to regain almost all seats lost in the previous election, and the PvdA was once again the second largest party in the Netherlands, only slightly smaller than the CDA. Personal and ideological conflicts between Bos and the CDA leader

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prevented the formation of a CDA-PvdA cabinet. Instead, the PvdA was kept out of government by the formation of cabinet of the CDA, the VVD, and D66, the latter being former allies of PvdA. In the 2006 municipal elections, the renewed PvdA performed very well. The PvdA became by far the largest party nationally, while the three governing parties lost a considerable number of seats in municipal councils. PvdA party lost the race for

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to the CDA after suffering a loss of 9 seats in the 2006 general election. The PvdA now held only 33 seats, losing many votes to the

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(SP). The PvdA had previously distanced themselves from the idea of a voting bloc on the left. It did, however, join the fourth Balkenende cabinet on 22 February 2007, in which Wouter Bos became

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. In the aftermath of the lost elections, the entire party executive stepped down on 26 April 2007. On Saturday 20 February 2010, the Labour Party withdrew from the government after arguments over the Dutch role in

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.

2010–present

After withdrawing from the government, Wouter Bos announced he would leave politics to spend more time with his wife and two daughters. Then mayor of Amsterdam,

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, took his place as leader of the PvdA. In the 2010 election, the PvdA won 30 seats, a loss of three, and were narrowly overtaken by the VVD. After the election, a "Purple Coalition" was considered – it would have required a fourth party in addition to the VVD, PvdA and D66 – but talks broke down and the PvdA entered opposition. Lodewijk Asscher 2015 (1)

Cohen resigned as leader in February 2012.

Diederik Samsom Diederik Maarten Samsom (; born 10 July 1971) is a Dutch environmentalist and retired politician who served the Labour Party (''Partij van de Arbeid'' PvdA) from 2012 to 2016. He was the first leader in the 70-year history of the PvdA to have b ...

was subsequently elected the party leader. In the 2012 general election, the Labour Party won 38 seats, a gain of 8, defying initial predictions that the

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would overtake them. Following the election the party entered a governing coalition with the VVD under

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, with Labour's

Lodewijk Asscher Lodewijk Frans Asscher (; born 27 September 1974) is a Dutch politician and jurist who served as Leader of the Labour Party (PvdA) from 2016 to 2021 and parliamentary leader in the House of Representatives from 2017 to 2021. Asscher worked as ...

becoming Deputy Prime Minister. Opinion polls suggested that popular support for the PvdA fell into a gradual decline in the years after the 2012 election. The party was polled as low as 5% by ''Peil'' on 8 May 2016. In December 2016 Samson was defeated by

Lodewijk Asscher Lodewijk Frans Asscher (; born 27 September 1974) is a Dutch politician and jurist who served as Leader of the Labour Party (PvdA) from 2016 to 2021 and parliamentary leader in the House of Representatives from 2017 to 2021. Asscher worked as ...

in a party leadership election. In the Dutch general election of 2017, the PvdA suffered the biggest defeat in Dutch electoral history, receiving only 5.7% of the votes and losing 29 of its 38 seats. Asscher did not resign from his post, claiming the defeat was his predecessor's responsibility. The party experienced a degree of revival in 2019, obtaining the most votes in that year's European Parliament election. This marked the first time the PvdA has finished on top in a national election since 1998. Ahead of the 2021 general election, Asscher resigned from the party leadership due to his part in the

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. He was replaced as leader and ''lijsttrekker'' by

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, who became the party's first permanent female leader. Following the election, the PvdA participated unsuccessfully in the

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in conjunction with GreenLeft. Ploumen later left, claiming she was unsuited for the leadership. She was replaced as parliamentary leader by

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.

Ideology

The PvdA began as a traditional

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party, committed to building a

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. During the 1970s, it programme and included new issues such as environmental conservation, Third World development and women's liberation. During the 1990s, it moderated its programme to include Third Way economic and social positions, including reform of the welfare state and privatisation of public enterprise. In 2005, the party adopted a new programme of principles, expressing a

centre-left Centre-left politics lean to the left on the left–right political spectrum but are closer to the centre than other left-wing politics. Those on the centre-left believe in working within the established systems to improve social justice. The ...

ideology. Its core issues are

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,

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and

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as well as investing in public

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,

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and

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.

Electorate

Historically, the PvdA was supported by the

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. Currently, the party is supported relatively well by

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s, migrants and the elder working class. The party has historically been very strong in the major cities such as

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and

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as well as in the northern provinces of

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,

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and

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.

Organisation

Leadership

* Leaders **

Willem Drees Willem () is a Dutch and West FrisianRienk de Haan, ''Fryske Foarnammen'', Leeuwarden, 2002 (Friese Pers Boekerij), , p. 158. masculine given name. The name is Germanic, and can be seen as the Dutch equivalent of the name William in English, ...

(9 February 1946 – 22 December 1958) **

Jaap Burger Jacobus Albertus Wilhelmus "Jaap" Burger (20 August 1904 – 19 August 1986) was a Dutch politician of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) and later co-founder of the Labour Party (PvdA) and jurist. He was granted the honorary title of ...

(22 December 1958 – 16 September 1962) ** Anne Vondeling (16 September 1962 – 13 September 1966) ** Joop den Uyl (13 September 1966 – 21 July 1986) **

Wim Kok Willem "Wim" Kok (; 29 September 1938 – 20 October 2018) was a Dutch politician and trade union leader who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 22 August 1994 until 22 July 2002.Ad Melkert Adrianus Petrus Wilhelmus "Ad" Melkert (; born 12 February 1956) is a Dutch politician and diplomat of the Labour Party (Netherlands), Labour Party (PvdA) who has served as a Council of State (Netherlands), Member of the Council of State since 20 ...

(15 December 2001 – 16 May 2002) *** ''Vacant'' (16 May 2002 – 12 November 2002) **

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(12 November 2002 – 25 April 2010) **

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(16 March 2012 – 10 December 2016) **

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(10 December 2016 – 14 January 2021) *** ''Vacant'' (14 January 2021 – 23 January 2021) **

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(5 June 1953 – 23 February 1955) **

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(23 February 1955 – 10 May 1960) **

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(10 May 1960 – 24 March 1961; ''ad interim'') **

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(24 March 1961 – 14 April 1965) *** ''Vacant'' (14 April 1965 – 12 June 1965) **

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(12 June 1965 – 7 March 1969) ** Anne Vondeling (7 March 1969 – 1 May 1971) **

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(1 May 1971 – 16 November 1974) ** Ien van den Heuvel-de Blank (16 November 1974 – 26 April 1979) **

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(26 April 1979 – 1 August 1986) ** Stan Poppe (1 August 1986 – 2 April 1987; ''ad interim'') ** Marjanne Sint (2 April 1987 – 1 August 1991) **

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(1 August 1991 – 13 March 1992; ''ad interim'') ** Felix Rottenberg (13 March 1992 – 15 February 1997; co-chair) **

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(13 March 1992 – 15 February 1997; co-chair) ** Karin Adelmund (15 February 1997 – 3 August 1998) **

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(3 August 1998 – 20 February 1999; ''ad interim'') ** Marijke van Hees (20 February 1999 – 5 September 2000) **

Mariëtte Hamer Mariëtte Iris Hamer (born 7 June 1958) is a Dutch politician and trade union leader serving as commissioner for combating inappropriate behavior and sexual violence since 2022. A member of the Labour Party (PvdA), she was its leader in the Hous ...

(5 September 2000 – 16 March 2001; ''ad interim'') **

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(16 March 2001 – 9 December 2005) ** Michiel van Hulten (9 December 2005 – 25 April 2007) **

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(25 April 2007 – 6 October 2007; ''ad interim'') **

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(6 October 2007 – 22 January 2012) ** Hans Spekman (22 January 2012 – 7 October 2017) ** Nelleke Vedelaar (7 October 2017 – 1 October 2021) ** Esther-Mirjam Sent (since 1 October 2021) *

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s in the

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** Marius Reinalda (9 February 1946 – 18 March 1947) ** Jo van de Kieft (27 March 1947 – 15 July 1952) **

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(15 July 1952 – 2 September 1952) **

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(2 September 1952 – 15 November 1960) **

Hein Vos Hendrik "Hein" Vos (5 July 1903 – 23 April 1972) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) and later the Labour Party (PvdA) and economist. Vos attended a Gymnasium in Heerenveen from April 1917 until M ...

(15 November 1960 – 16 February 1968) **

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(5 March 1968 – 7 October 1968) ** Jan Broeksz (7 October 1968 – 16 September 1975) ** Anne Vermeer (16 September 1975 – 23 June 1987) ** Ger Schinck (23 June 1987 – 13 June 1995) ** Joop van den Berg (13 June 1995 – 1 August 1996) **

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(1 August 1996 – 3 August 1998) **

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(3 August 1998 – 8 June 1999) ** Geertje Lycklama à Nijeholt (8 June 1999 – 10 June 2003) ** Johan Stekelenburg (10 June 2003 – 22 September 2003) **

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(11 November 2003 – 7 June 2011) ** Marleen Barth (7 June 2011 – 8 February 2018) ** André Postema (8 February 2018 – 10 July 2018) ** Esther-Mirjam Sent (4 September 2018 – 11 June 2019) ** Mei Li Vos (since 11 June 2019) *

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s in the House of Representatives ** Marinus van der Goes van Naters (4 June 1946 – 16 January 1951) **

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(16 January 1951 – 18 September 1951) ** Leendert Antonie Donker (18 September 1951 – 2 September 1952) **

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(2 September 1952 – 16 September 1962) ** Anne Vondeling (16 September 1962 – 14 April 1965) ** Gerard Nederhorst (14 April 1965 – 23 February 1967) ** Joop den Uyl (23 February 1967 – 11 May 1973) **

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(11 May 1973 – 8 June 1977) ** Joop den Uyl (8 June 1977 – 8 September 1977) **

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(8 September 1977 – 16 January 1978) ** Joop den Uyl (16 January 1978 – 11 September 1981) ** Wim Meijer (11 September 1981 – 16 September 1982) ** Joop den Uyl (16 September 1982 – 21 July 1986) **

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(10 July 1998 – 16 May 2002) ** Jeltje van Nieuwenhoven (16 May 2002 – 19 November 2002) **

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(19 November 2002 – 22 February 2007) ** Jacques Tichelaar (22 February 2007 – 22 January 2008) **

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(22 January 2008 – 17 June 2010) **

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(17 June 2010 – 20 February 2012) ** Jeroen Dijsselbloem (20 February 2012 – 20 March 2012) **

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(20 March 2012 – 12 December 2016) **

Attje Kuiken Attje Harma Kuiken (; born 27 October 1977) is a Dutch politician and former civil servant serving as the leader of the Labour Party in the House of Representatives since 22 April 2022. She has been a parliamentarian since 30 November 2006 wit ...

(12 December 2016 – 23 March 2017) **

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(23 March 2017 – 14 January 2021) **

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(14 January 2021 – 12 April 2022) **

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(since 22 April 2022)

Organisational structure

Presentatie concept-kandidatenlijsten Tweede Kamerverkiezingen PvdA 2012

The highest organ of the PvdA is the

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, formed by delegates from the municipal branches. It convenes once every year. It appoints the party board, decides the order of candidates on electoral lists for the Senate, House of Representatives and European Parliament and has the final say over the party programme. Since 2002, a

referendum A referendum (plural: referendums or less commonly referenda) is a Direct democracy, direct vote by the Constituency, electorate on a proposal, law, or political issue. This is in contrast to an issue being voted on by a Representative democr ...

of all members has partially replaced the Congress. Both the lijsttrekker of the House of Representatives candidate list, who is the political leader of the party, and the party chairman, who leads the party organisation, are selected by such a referendum. In 2002, Wouter Bos won the PvdA leadership election.

Members

As of 2020, PvdA has 42,794 members. They are organised in over 500 municipal branches.

Linked organisations

''Rood'' is the party periodical. It appears eight times a year. The Young Socialists is the youth organisation of the PvdA. It is a member of

Young European Socialists Young European Socialists (YES), formerly the European Community Organisation of Socialist Youth (ECOSY), is an association of social democracy, social democratic youth organisations in Europe and the European Union. YES is the youth organisat ...

and the

International Union of Socialist Youth The International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY) is an international organization, founded in 1907, whose activities include publications, support of member organizations and the organization of meetings. It was formed as the youth wing of the ...

. They publish the periodical ''Lava''. The scientific institute (or

think tank A think tank, or policy institute, is a research institute that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, technology, and culture. Most think tanks are non-govern ...

) of the PvdA is the Wiardi Beckman Foundation. It publishes the periodical ''Socialisme & Democratie''. The PvdA participates in the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy, a democracy assistance organisation of seven Dutch political parties.

International organisations

The PvdA is a full member of the

Party of European Socialists The Party of European Socialists (PES) is a social democratic and progressive European political party. The PES comprises national-level political parties from all member states of the European Union (EU) plus Norway and the United Kingdom. ...

and was formerly an observer member of the

Socialist International The Socialist International (SI) is a political international or worldwide organisation of political parties which seek to establish democratic socialism. It consists mostly of socialist and labour-oriented political parties and organisation ...

until December 2014, having previously downgraded their membership in December 2012. The PvdA joined the

Progressive Alliance The Progressive Alliance (PA) is a political international of social democratic and progressive political parties and organisations founded on 22 May 2013 in Leipzig, Germany. The alliance was formed as an alternative to the existing Socia ...

, a new international network for social democratic political parties, at its founding event on 22 May 2013.

Pillarised organisations

During the period of strong

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the PvdA had strong links with the social democratic broadcasting organisation VARA Broadcasting Association, the Dutch Association of Trade Unions, and the paper '' Het Vrije Volk''.

Relationships to other parties

Historically, the PvdA has co-operated in cabinets with the Christian democratic

Christian Democratic Appeal The Christian Democratic Appeal ( nl, Christen-Democratisch Appèl, ; CDA) is a Christian-democratic political party in the Netherlands. It was originally formed in 1977 from a confederation of the Catholic People's Party, the Anti-Revolution ...

(CDA), Political Party of Radicals (PPR),

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 (ARP), Christian Historical Union (CHU) and ChristianUnion (CU) parties and the liberal parties

Democrats 66 Democrats 66 (; abbreviated D66, ) is a social liberal political party in the Netherlands, which positions itself in the centre of the political spectrum. It is a member of the Liberal International (LI) and the Alliance of Liberals and Demo ...

(D66) and

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 i ...

(VVD). Between 1971 and 1977, PvdA was allied with D66 and the PPR. After 1977 until 1989, it was closely allied to D66. Since 2003, the relationship between the PvdA and D66 has considerably worsened, at first because PvdA was in opposition to the second Balkenende cabinet which D66 had co-operated in. During the governance of the

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and third Balkenende cabinet, the

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and GreenLeft were calling for closer cooperation with the PvdA, calling to form a shadow government against the Balkenende cabinet, PvdA leader Bos held this off. The PvdA has strong ties with GreenLeft. In the

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the parties unsuccessfully combined. Prominent members including

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and Marjolein Moorman have called for a deepened collaboration. A merger has also been discussed. The Wiardi Beckman Foundation has voiced its opposition to this.

Electoral results

House of Representatives

Senate

European Parliament

Representation

Members of the House of Representatives

The eight members of the House of Representatives for the Labour Party are the following: * Julian Bushoff *

Joris Thijssen Joris Thijssen (born 19 April 1974) is a Dutch environmental activist and politician. After studying aerospace engineering, he started working for the environmental organization Greenpeace. He participated in numerous protest actions, leading to ...

* Habtamu de Hoop * Kati Piri *

Attje Kuiken Attje Harma Kuiken (; born 27 October 1977) is a Dutch politician and former civil servant serving as the leader of the Labour Party in the House of Representatives since 22 April 2022. She has been a parliamentarian since 30 November 2006 wit ...

* Barbara Kathmann *

Henk Nijboer Henk Nijboer (born 31 March 1983) is a Dutch politician. As a member of the Labour Party (Partij van de Arbeid) he has been an MP since 20 September 2012. Previously he was a member of the provincial parliament of the province of Groningen ...

* Songül Mutluer

Members of the Senate

The eight members (four men, four women) of the

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for the Labour Party are the following:PvdA-fractie
" (in Dutch), ''

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''. Retrieved 28 February 2018. * Esther-Mirjam Sent,

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* Jannette Beuving * Jopie Nooren * Mohamed Sini * André Postema * Lambert Verheijen * Janny Vlietstra * Wouter van Zandbrink

Members of the European Parliament

The six members (four women, two men) of the

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since the European Parliamentary election of 2019 are the following: #

Agnes Jongerius Agnes Jongerius (; born 4 November 1960) is a Dutch trade unionist and politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Netherlands since July 2014. She is a member of the Labour Party, part of the Progressive Alliance o ...

# Kati Piri # Paul Tang # Vera Tax # Mohammed Chahim #

Lara Wolters Lara Wolters is a Dutch politician of the Labour Party who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. Early life and education After studying law and European social and political studies (ESPS) at the University Coll ...

References

External links

* * PvdA archives at the

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1989–2010

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Ideology

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Leadership

Organisational structure

Members

Linked organisations

International organisations

Pillarised organisations

Relationships to other parties

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European Parliament

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Members of the House of Representatives

Members of the Senate

Members of the European Parliament

References

Further reading

External links