Netherlands cabinet Den Uyl
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The Den Uyl cabinet was a Dutch
left-wing cabinet under prime minister Joop den Uyl
with ministers from PvdA, PPR, D66, KVP
and ARP
. The last two parties were actually moderately right-wing, but left-wing elements within these parties supported cabinet den Uyl to create a left-wing majority. During the coalition formation, negotiations between the parties were hard because of collisions between uncompromising left-wing radicals and the moderate factions of the left-wing parties and the left-wing Christians.
It was the most progressive Dutch cabinet and seen as very humanist
, thinking with the heart instead of the wallet. But this led to an increase of the debts due to an increase in government spending. The aim of the cabinet was to spread income, knowledge and power among the population.
The cabinet was confronted with many problems: the oil crisis
, the terrorist attacks by Moluccans seeking independence from Indonesia
, the Lockheed affair
(bribes accepted by the queen's husband) and the closing of the abortion clinic Bloemenhove. Many plans could not be implemented because of these problems.
The cabinet fell because of a conflict about the development plans of the Dutch surface. A deeper cause was the left-wing mistrust for the Christian ministers, especially in the case of war criminal Menten, where deputy Prime Minister Dries van Agt
was ridiculed (so believed Van Agt) by some party members of Prime Minister Den Uyl.
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
left-wing cabinet under prime minister Joop den Uyl
Joop den Uyl
Johannes Marten den Uijl, known as Joop den Uyl was a Dutch politician of the Labour Party . He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from May 11, 1973 until December 19, 1977....
with ministers from PvdA, PPR, D66, KVP
Catholic People's Party
The Catholic People's Party was a Catholic Christian democratic Dutch political party. During its entire existence, the party was in government. The party is one of the precursors of the Christian Democratic Appeal.- 1945-1965 :The KVP was founded on 22 December, 1945...
and ARP
Anti Revolutionary Party
The Anti Revolutionary Party was a Dutch Protestant Christian democratic political party. The ARP is one of the predecessors of the Christian Democratic Appeal. After 1917 the party never received more than twenty percent of the vote.-History before 1879:The anti-revolutionary parliamentary caucus...
. The last two parties were actually moderately right-wing, but left-wing elements within these parties supported cabinet den Uyl to create a left-wing majority. During the coalition formation, negotiations between the parties were hard because of collisions between uncompromising left-wing radicals and the moderate factions of the left-wing parties and the left-wing Christians.
It was the most progressive Dutch cabinet and seen as very humanist
Humanism
Humanism is an approach in study, philosophy, world view or practice that focuses on human values and concerns. In philosophy and social science, humanism is a perspective which affirms some notion of human nature, and is contrasted with anti-humanism....
, thinking with the heart instead of the wallet. But this led to an increase of the debts due to an increase in government spending. The aim of the cabinet was to spread income, knowledge and power among the population.
The cabinet was confronted with many problems: the oil crisis
1973 oil crisis
The 1973 oil crisis started in October 1973, when the members of Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries or the OAPEC proclaimed an oil embargo. This was "in response to the U.S. decision to re-supply the Israeli military" during the Yom Kippur war. It lasted until March 1974. With the...
, the terrorist attacks by Moluccans seeking independence from Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
, the Lockheed affair
Lockheed bribery scandals
The Lockheed bribery scandals encompassed a series of bribes and contributions made by officials of U.S. aerospace company Lockheed from the late 1950s to the 1970s in the process of negotiating the sale of aircraft....
(bribes accepted by the queen's husband) and the closing of the abortion clinic Bloemenhove. Many plans could not be implemented because of these problems.
The cabinet fell because of a conflict about the development plans of the Dutch surface. A deeper cause was the left-wing mistrust for the Christian ministers, especially in the case of war criminal Menten, where deputy Prime Minister Dries van Agt
Dries van Agt
Andreas Antonius Maria "Dries" van Agt is a retired Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal . He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from December 19, 1977, until November 4, 1982....
was ridiculed (so believed Van Agt) by some party members of Prime Minister Den Uyl.