Gereformeerd Politiek Verbond

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Gereformeerd Politiek Verbond ( German  Reformed Political Association ) was the name of a political party in the Netherlands that existed from 1948 to 2003. It was strictly Protestant in the sense of the earth reforms . As a so-called confessional party, it was about representing a point of view, not about political influence. It received about one percent of the vote in the chamber elections from 1963 and one or two MPs. It had up to 14,000 members who, according to the party, should all belong to a cleared church. In 2001 it merged with the Reformatory Politieke Federatie to form the ChristenUnie .

Eimert van Middelkoop had been a member of the Second Chamber for the GPV since 1989. He later became Minister of Defense in the last Balkenende cabinet for the ChristenUnie (2007-2010).

The founding of the GPV was a consequence of a church split in 1944, from which the Union of Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (liberated) arose. This had broken away from the earths of reform because they felt they had been treated unfairly. In political terms, the group broke away from the ARP , a traditionally strict Protestant party. The final break between ARP and a Provisional Confederation of Free Electoral Associations came in 1950, and the GPV has had its name ever since.

The party invoked a Protestant state thinker of the 19th century, Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer . She wanted a strong monarchy with a king who checks laws against a Christian constitution. Their general or additional board of directors was the Generale Verbondsraad and the narrow board ( dagelijks bestuur in the Dutch tradition) of the Centrale Verbondsraad . Both only accepted members of the cleared churches, who were to be regarded as the real churches. This could be regulated differently in individual local groups, the kiesverenigingen (electoral associations). In contrast to the traditional, strictly Protestant SGP , women were allowed to be politically active.

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supporting documents

  1. ↑ George Harinck, Hugo Scherff: Oude wijn in nieuwe zakken: over de continuïteit in politieke visie en standpunten tussen GPV en RPF en de ChristenUnie , 2010, p. 134.
  2. ^ Reformatory State-Knowing Verbond? : over de samenwerking tussen SGP, GPV en RPF (1975-2000) , pp. 54/55.