2.25pm: Sybrand van Haersma Buma, parliamentary leader of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party (the junior partner in Mark Rutte's minority coalition), has rejected the suggestion that the Netherlands should abandon its deficit reduction plan.
The three main parties are, on the left, the Labour party (known by its Dutch initials as the PvdA); on the right, the Liberals (the VVD); and in the centre, the Christian Democrats (the CDA), which brought together several Christian parties.
Ahead of its general election on June 9th, a country that once fretted about immigration and Islam now has a more prosaic concern: the public finances.The election was called in February when the government led by Jan Peter Balkenende's Christian Democratic party (CDA) collapsed.
New radical political parties were formed, and, in the face of rapid secularization of the vote, the various Christian parties joined together in the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA).
In June 1986 de Hoop Scheffer sought public office as a candidate for the right-of-centre Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) and was elected to the House of Representatives Second Chamberr) of the States General, the national legislature.
I mean what is the problem there, if there is? CdA I've been on mission, it was a very interesting mission to Uruguay where there was a referendum.
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SP participation in a CDA-led coalition would have best reflected the will of the electorate; previously, the CDA governed alongside the liberal parties VVD and D66 (the latter now has only three seats in parliament).
Angry voices on the left have accused Maxime Verhagen, the CDA chairman, of trading principles for budget cuts by accepting Mr Wilders's help, and there are similar rumblings from within his own party.Mr Verhagen is convinced he can ride the storm.
DUTCH spirits have been glum since April, when the minority government of liberals (VVD) and Christian Democrats (CDA) collapsed after the populist Freedom Party leader, Geert Wilders, withdrew his backing for cuts to bring the budget deficit below 3% of GDP.
The CDA was the obvious coalition partner, and Mr Wilders appeared to be willing to jettison some of the populist economic ideas he had tried out during the election campaign for influence over the policy area that really matters to him: immigration.
