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For the election of 2002, Balkenende served as Lijsttrekker (top candidate) and after a cabinet formation with the Pim Fortuyn List and the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy formed the Cabinet Balkenende I and became Prime Minister of the Netherlands taking office 22 July 2002.
Jul 11, 2002 · Well, Jan Peter Balkenende entered parliament all of four years ago, and became the leader of his Christian Democrats only last October—and that mainly for lack of anyone likelier to pull...
During the search for Ministers and State Secretaries under formateur Jan Peter Balkenende, the LPF had a harder time finding suitable candidates. Despite taking place shortly after the murder on 6 May of LPF's party leader Pim Fortuyn , the formation went relatively calmly and quickly.
For the election of 2002, Balkenende served as Lijsttrekker (top candidate) and after a cabinet formation with the Pim Fortuyn List and the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy formed the Cabinet Balkenende I and became Prime Minister of the Netherlands taking office 22 July 2002. The cabinet Balkenende I fell just 87 days into its term.
Jan 30, 2023 · Jan Peter Balkenende was a very successful two-term Prime Minister of the Netherlands. After his public service he and Paul Polman, then CEO of Unilever, founded the Dutch Sustainable Growth...
Jan 1, 2019 · Jan Peter Balkenende, head of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), succeeded Wim Kok as Dutch prime minister following the elections of May 2002. He briefly led a right-of-centre coalition which included the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and List Pim Fortuyn (LPF) until Oct. 2002, when LPF in-fighting forced the collapse of ...
This success is in part owed to its new leader Jan Peter Balkenende, who went on to become prime minister, and to its neutral attitude in the debate with Fortuyn, not having participated in the supposed ‘demonization’ by the political Left.
