Christian Democratic Appeal

…a candidate for the right-of-centre Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) and was elected to the House of Representatives (Second Chamber) of the States General, the national legislature. He became the party’s spokesman on foreign policy as well as refugee policy and European justice matters.

…parties joined together in the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA). However, the religious vote has continued to decline, and in the 1990s there were “purple” coalitions for the first time, between the (red) Labour Party and the (blue) Liberals (conservatives). The Communist Party, once influential beyond its small numbers, disbanded in…