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A ChristenUnie (Christians Union) occurs as comparatively immature political party in the Netherlands. It combines the conservative point of view in social issues (like abortion, euthanasia and gay marriage) with additional social democratic ideas on economic & environmental issues. A fifth-largest person in the Netherlands, it has 27,000 members.
A person was formed around 2001 from a combination of ii parties, the Reformatorisch Politieke Federatie and the Gereformeerd Politiek Verbond, which had fought a 1998 elections separately. Together a parties experienced 5 seats (GPV Two, RPF Three) away from 150 in a Dutch parliament prior to the 2002 elections. It were required to produce a lightly benefit, sustaining to astir Septet seats, however a opposite happened, & the ChristenUnie wasted of these seat to prevent higher sustaining 4 seats.
A political leader at a instance was Kars Veling. Fallowing the 2002 elections it has been argued that this experienced been a bad guide. Veling (it was argued) is individual world health organization was effective at keeping a peace internally inside a person however somewhat divided amongst the old GPV-RPF line, but not person world health organization was a utile candidate for interesting the general people. So the fresh political leader was appointed: André Rouvoet.
In the 2003 elections, the ChristenUnie misplaced an additional seat, keeping lone trio. This was probably because supporters of the person voted CDA, that was in a heavily competition by using the PvdA, to make that person a largest.
A ChristenUnie occurs as member of the European Christian Political Movement (EPCM).
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