At the moment (1998-2002), the following parties have representatives in the Tweede Kamer:
PvdA? 45 Social Democratic VVD? 39 right-wing Liberal CDA? 29 [Christian Democratic]? D66? 14 left-wing Liberal GroenLinks? 11 left-wing Ecological? SP? 5 Post-Communistic ChristenUnie? 5 Christian SGP? 3 right-wing Conservative Christian
Like a number of other European countries with proportional representation, the Dutch have always had Coalition governments. Since 1994, the governing coalition consists of PvdA?, VVD and D66. Before that, for 80 years the CDA (or the parties that later joined to form the CDA) had been in the government, sometimes with the socialists (PvdA?), sometimes with the liberals (VVD) as their coalition partner.