First Rutte cabinet
| First Rutte cabinet Rutte–Verhagen cabinet |
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 68th cabinet of the Netherlands |
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The First Rutte cabinet on 14 October 2010
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| Date formed | 14 October 2010 |
| Date dissolved | 5 November 2012 |
| People and organisations | |
| Head of government | Mark Rutte |
| Deputy head of government | Maxime Verhagen |
| Head of state | Beatrix of the Netherlands |
| Ministers removed (Death/resignation/dismissal) |
1 |
| Total no. of ministers | 13 |
| Member party |
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) |
| Status in legislature | Centre-right Minority government |
| History | |
| Election(s) | Dutch general election, 2010 |
| Outgoing election | Dutch general election, 2012 |
| Legislature term(s) | 2010-2012 |
| Incoming formation | 2010 Dutch cabinet formation |
| Outgoing formation | 2012 Dutch cabinet formation |
| Predecessor | Fourth Balkenende cabinet |
| Successor | Second Rutte cabinet |
The First Rutte cabinet, also called the Rutte–Verhagen cabinet was the executive branch of the Dutch government from 14 October 2010 until 5 November 2012. The cabinet was formed by the political parties People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) after the Dutch general election of 2010. The cabinet was a minority cabinet but it was supported by the Party for Freedom (PVV) in the House of Representatives for a majority.
Following the collapse of the fourth Balkenende cabinet on 20 February 2010, elections for the House of Representatives were held on 9 June 2010. As usual in Dutch politics, none of the parties had a majority and several Informateurs were appointed to investigate the formation of a coalition cabinet. A broad coalition consisting of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, Christian Democratic Appeal and the Labour Party was briefly looked at, but dismissed. Then negotiations for a "purple plus" coalition consisting of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, Labour Party, Democrats 66 and GreenLeft lasted for about three weeks, but the parties could not reach agreement on the amount of budget cuts. Finally, a construction which is rare for the Netherlands was investigated: a minority coalition consisting of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy and Christian Democratic Appeal (together 52 out of 150 seats in the House of Representatives), supported in parliament by the Party for Freedom (24 seats), to make the smallest possible majority of 76 seats. The reason for this construction was that parties agreed that the largest party the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy and the largest winner in the elections needed to be in power; only the Christian Democratic Appeal could or wanted to help make a majority, but they were against forming a proper coalition with Party for Freedom because of their different views on Islam and immigration. Therefore, negotiations were held to form a coalition agreement between the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy and Christian Democratic Appeal, and to form a "parliamentary support agreement" between all three parties, which were successfully finished on 30 September 2010.
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