Tweede Kamer - House of Representatives of the Netherlands

 parliament, politics

The Tweede Kamer is the lower house of Parliament. It has 150 directly elected members. The Tweede Kamer is the main chamber of parliament, where discussion of proposed legislation and review of the actions of the cabinet takes place.

Summary of the 22 November 2006 Netherlands Second Chamber election results;
* Christian Democratic Appeal - CDA - 41 seats
* Labour Party - PvdA - 33 seats
* Socialist Party - SP - 25 seats
* People's Party for Freedom and Democracy - VVD - 21 seats
* Party for Freedom - PVV - 9 seats
* GreenLeft - GL - 7 seats
* ChristianUnion - CU - 6 seats
* Democrats 66 - D66 - 3 seats
* Party for the Animals - PvdD - 2 seats
* Reformed Political Party - SGP - 2 seats
(* Proud of the Netherlands - TON - 1 seat (Split off of the VVD))

Coalition parties are CDA, PvdA and CU

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