English name:

People's Party for Freedom and Democracy

Status:

Member (joined 1960)

Address:

Koninginnegracht 57

P O Box 30836

2500 GV The Hague

Telephone:

00 31 70 361 3061

Fax:

00 31 70 360 8276

Homepage on the World Wide Web:

http://www.vvd.nl/

Leader:

Frits Bolkestein

President:

Willem Hoekzema

Secretary-General:

Jan Korff

Treasurer:

Ruud Sandberg

Director:

Daan Zwart

Chair of Foreign Affairs Committee:

Jaap de Hoop Scheffer

Responsible for Women’s Issues:

Mrs Ineke van Ark

International Relations Secretary:

Zsolt Szabo

- direct telephone number:

00 31 70 361 30 06

- direct e-mail address:

int.sec@vvd.nl

Party Newspaper:

Vrijheid en Democratie

- editor:

Mrs Reny Dijkman

Foundation or Thinktank:

Teldersstichting

- Director:

Klaas Groenveld

Date of the last general Elections:

6 May 1998

- Votes:

2100000

- Percentage:

24.7

- Number of seats in parliament:

Parliament: 38/150 Senate: 23/75

- Date of the next general Elections:

May 2002

Membership:

55000

Parliamentary Group:

Second Chamber

PO Box 20018

2500 EA The Hague

- Telephone

00 31 70 318 2211

Parliamentary Spokesperson(Foreign Policy):

Frans Weisglas

Parliamentary Spokesperson(Defence):

Theo van den Doel

Parliamentary Spokesperson(Human Rights):

Jan-Dirk Blaauw

Parliamentary Spokesperson(Int. Economic Affairs):

Enric Hessing

Government or Opposition:

In government

- Minister(s):

Hans Dijkstal (Interior/Deputy Prime Minister), Joris Voorhoeve (Defence), Gerrit Zalm (Finance), Jozias van Aartsen (Agriculture), Mrs Annemarie Jorritsma (Transport)