Socialist Party (Netherlands)
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The Socialist Party (Dutch: Socialistische Partij) is a socialist party in the Netherlands. It was founded in 1972 as a Maoist party (named KPN/ML, Communist Party of the Netherlands/Marxist-Leninist) but in 1991 formally abandoned Marxism-Leninism (in practice, it had already abandoned Marxist dogma long before). In 1994 it got its first members of parliament and in 1999 it had one member elected to the European Parliament, with another one in 2004. It is now the fourth largest political party by seats and the third largest by members. The party's leader is Jan Marijnissen.
For the 2003 elections, the SP rose up to 24 seats in the polls. Finally the SP didn't gain as much as a single seat from its 9 seats the year before, mainly because the left wing Partij van de Arbeid (Pvda) came very close to the largest party, the Christen Democratisch Appel (CDA). Many potential SP voters rather had a larger PvdA and a small SP than both medium sized SP and PvdA, with far less seats than the CDA.
The Socialist Party's MEPs sits in the European United Left - Nordic Green Left group.
Number of seats in the Tweede Kamer, of the 150 total:
- 1994 - 2
- 1998 - 5
- 2002 - 9
- 2003 - 9 (In February 2004 the SP lost one seat when Ali Lazrak left the party).
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Parliament
Tweede Kamer
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SP members of the Tweede Kamer are:
- Jan Marijnissen, chairman
- Harry van Bommel
- Arda Gerkens
- Agnes Kant
- Piet de Ruiter
- Krista van Velzen
- Fenna Vergeer
- Jan de Wit
Eerste Kamer
European Parliament
External Link
Socialist Party web site in English (http://international.sp.nl/)de:Socialistische Partij nl:Socialistische Partij