Freedom Party (Netherlands)
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Freedom Party
Partij van de Vrijheid |
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| Leader | Steven Bierema |
| Founded | 23 March 1946 |
| Dissolved | 24 January 1948 |
| Preceded by | Liberal State Party |
| Merged into | People's Party for Freedom and Democracy |
| Ideology |
Conservative liberalism Classical liberalism |
| Political position | Centre-right |
The Freedom Party(Dutch: Partij van de Vrijheid, PvdV) was a short-lived conservative-liberalpolitical party in the Netherlands. The PvdV was a successor of the Liberal State Party and predecessor of the modern-day People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).
The PvdV was founded on 23 March 1946 by a group around the young liberal Korthals and the director of Heineken. After the foundation they were joined by the rest of the top of the pre-war Liberal State Party. The party was supposed to be less conservative and more modern that its predecessor. In 1948 it merged with social-liberal dissidents from the PvdA, led by Pieter Oud, to become the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). In the 1946 elections it received six seats and it was confined to a minor position in opposition.
The PvdV was classical liberal party with progressive leanings, committed to individual freedom and free market economics.
This table shows the PvdV's results in elections to the House of Representatives, Senate and States-Provincial, as well as the party's political leadership: the fractievoorzitter, is the chair of the parliamentary party and the lijsttrekker is the party's top candidate in the general election, these posts are normally taken by the party's leader.
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