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The Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal ("Second Chamber of the States-General"), short Tweede Kamer, is the lower house of the States-General (Staten-Generaal), the parliament in the Netherlands. It has 150 seats which are filled through elections using a party-list proportional representation. The Tweede Kamer sits in The Hague.
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(German) | Zweite Kammer der Generalstaaten |
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(French) | Tweede Kamer |
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Hilversum, Den Uyl was a member of the Tweede Kamer since 1956, and became leader of his party in 1966. He remained a member of the Tweede Kamer until his death in Amsterdam in 1987...
Hans Janmaat (November 3, 1934 - June 9, 2002) was a far-right politician in the Netherlands. He represented the Centrumpartij and his own Centrum Democraten political parties in the Tweede Kamer, the Dutch lower house of parliament, between 1982 and 1994, when he withdrew from politics. The...
, and Sweden. After working for thirteen years, he became a politician, joining the Dutch Tweede Kamer (the second chamber of the Dutch legislature) as a member of the Democraten 66 political party in...
governing coalition. The CDA was represented in the Tweede Kamer (lower house of parliament) from 1977... government. Development of the number of seats in the Tweede Kamer, of the 150 available: 1956 - 77 (KVP 49... Tweede Kamer faction from October 1, 2001 was Jan Peter Balkenende. He also functioned as...
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. Unlike the politically more significant Tweede Kamer, its members tend to be part-time politicians at... The Eerste Kamer (literally First Chamber in Dutch) is the Upper House or Senate of the Netherlands parliament, the States-General. It was established in 1815 when the Netherlands and Belgium...
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Balkenende's cabinet in 2002, despite a large reduction in its representation in the Tweede Kamer... parliament Development of the number of seats in the Tweede Kamer, of the 150 total: 1948 - 8 1952 - 9 1956... (represented in second Balkenende cabinet) Figureheads Tweede Kamer elections The figurehead (in Dutch...
Piet Dankert (January 8, 1934 - June 21, 2003) was a Dutch politician, a member of the Partij van de Arbeid. He was first elected to the Tweede Kamer in 1968. There he was spokesman for foreign affairs and defence. In the late 1970s he moved to the European Parliament, and was President of the...
general election, 2002 Dutch general election, 2003 Elections in the Netherlands for the Tweede Kamer of Parliament The number of seats in the Tweede Kamer was shortly after the elections enlarged to...
largest party in the Tweede Kamer. This success is ascribed to its new leader Jan Peter Balkenende... debut in the Tweede Kamer was Leefbaar Nederland. There were other parties participating, but these... general election, 2002 Dutch general election, 2003 Elections in the Netherlands for the Tweede...
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