Zijlstra cabinet


The Zijlstra cabinet was the cabinet of the Netherlands from 22 November 1966 until 5 April 1967. The cabinet was formed by the political parties Catholic People's Party and the Anti-Revolutionary Party following the fall of the Cals cabinet on 14 October 1966. The centre-right rump cabinet served as a caretaker government until the election of 1967. Jelle Zijlstra was Prime Minister, Jan de Quay and Barend Biesheuvel served as Deputy Prime Ministers.

Formation

Following the fall of the Cals cabinet the Labour Party left the coalition and the Catholic People's Party and the Anti-Revolutionary Party formed a Rump cabinet.

Term

Such a transitional cabinet is not supposed to take important decisions, but it still resolved the issue over the introduction of commercial television, which had been a major issue in the two previous cabinets, with the omroepwet, which allowed commercial blocks on public television, despite protests by VVD and part of CHU.

Cabinet Members

Living cabinet members