Zijlstra cabinet
Zijlstra cabinet | |
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51st Cabinet of the Netherlands | |
Date formed | 22 November 1966 |
Date dissolved | 5 April 1967 134 days in office (Demissionary from 15 February 1967 ) |
People and organisations | |
Monarch | Queen Juliana |
Prime Minister | Jelle Zijlstra |
Deputy Prime Minister | Jan de Quay Barend Biesheuvel |
No. of ministers | 13 |
Member party | Catholic People's Party (KVP) Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) |
Status in legislature | Centrist Minority government (Caretaker/Rump) |
History | |
Outgoing election | 1967 election |
Legislature term(s) | 1963–1967 |
Incoming formation | 1966 formation |
Outgoing formation | 1967 formation |
Predecessor | Cals cabinet |
Successor | De Jong cabinet |
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The Zijlstra cabinet was the
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries and the responsibility for Suriname and Netherlands Antilles Affairs from previous cabinet
.
The cabinet served in the middle of the tumultuous 1960s, domestically it had to deal with the counterculture and its primary objective was to make preparations for a snap election in 1967. Following the election the cabinet continued in a demissionary capacity until it was replaced by the De Jong cabinet.[1][2][3]
Formation
Following the fall of the Cals cabinet the Labour Party (PvdA) left the coalition and the Catholic People's Party and the Anti-Revolutionary Party formed a Rump cabinet.
Term
Such a transitional cabinet is not supposed to take important decisions, but it still resolved the issue over the introduction of
VVD and part of CHU
.
Cabinet Members
- Retained from the previous cabinet
- Continued in the next cabinet
References
- ^ "Kabinetscrisis 1966: de Nacht van Schmelzer" (in Dutch). Parlement & Politiek. 10 December 2010. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
- ^ "Misschien waren we allebei teveel boekhouder'" (in Dutch). NRC Handelsblad. 12 September 1991. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
- ^ "Kabinet Zijlstra - Vijftig jaar geleden aangetreden" (in Dutch). Andere Tijden. 22 November 2016. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
External links
- Official
- (in Dutch) Kabinet-Zijlstra Parlement & Politiek
- (in Dutch) Kabinet-Zijlstra Rijksoverheid
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