The Anti-Revolutionary Party was a Protestant conservative and Christian democratic political party in the Netherlands between 1879 and 1980.
Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer in 1823, painted by Charles Howard Hodges
Abraham Kuyper, founder and party leader until 1920, prime minister 1901–1905
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy, prime minister 1940–1945 during World War II leading the Dutch government in exile
Jelle Zijlstra, party leader in 1956 and 1958–1959, prime minister 1966–1967
The Christian Democratic Appeal is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in the Netherlands.
Anti-Revolutionary Party
…evangelical" image, while also seeking closer cooperation with the Catholic People's Party (KVP) and the CHU, with the three parties merging to form the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) in 1980. In the mid-19th century, the historian Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer laid the foundations of an Orthodox Reformed body of political…
ARP leader Willem Aantjes held a speech during the first CDA convention in 1975 in which he argued for the importance of the evangelical guidelines in the party. The speech became known as his sermon on the mount.
The CDA's founder and inaugural chairman Piet Steenkamp (left) and inaugural party leader and Prime Minister Dries van Agt (right) in 1977
Outgoing CDA party chair Piet Steenkamp signing the merger during the merger convention on 11 October 1980 with to the right vice-chair Jim Janssen van Raaij and to the left Madeleen Leyten. Behind them are from right to left the party chairs: Piet Bukman (incoming CDA), Luck van Leeuwen (CHU), Hans de Boer (ARP) and Piet van Zeil (KVP).
Ruud Lubbers, party leader and Prime Minister from 1982 until 1994.