The Rainbow () was an alliance of
Dutch political parties, which included the
Political Party of Radicals
The Political Party of Radicals (, PPR) was a progressive Christian (''radicaal-christelijke'') 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 for ...
, the
Pacifist Socialist Party, the
Evangelical People's Party and the
Communist Party of the Netherlands.
History
The parties contested the
1989 European Parliament election
The 1989 European Parliament election was a held on June Wednesday 15 to Sunday 18 across the 12 European Union member state in June 1989. It was the third European Parliament election but the first time that Spain and Portugal voted at the sam ...
with a common list. The alliance won 7% of the vote, which gave it two seats in the European Parliament, which were taken by
Nel van Dijk (CPN) and
Herman Verbeek (PPR). In the
1984 European Parliament election
The 1984 European Parliament election was the first since the inaugural election of 1979 and the 1981 enlargement of the European Community to include Greece. It was also the last before the accession of Spain and Portugal in 1986.
Results sh ...
the parties, together with the
Green Party of the Netherlands had also formed a common list called
Green Progressive Accord. 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.
Onderhandelen, onderhandelen, onderhandelen...
on LeoPlatvoet.nl
In the 1989 general election the three parties together formed a common list called GroenLinks
(, ; GL) is a Green politics, green List of political parties in the Netherlands, political party in the Netherlands.
It was formed on 1 March 1989 from the merger of four Left-wing politics, left-wing parties: the Communist Party of the Neth ...
. In 1990 the parties dissolved and GroenLinks was formed as a political party.
Composition
European election result
See also
* List of GroenLinks members of the European Parliament
References
{{European Parliament, (Netherlands)
GroenLinks
Political party alliances in the Netherlands
Political parties disestablished in 1990