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Issues

Municipal councillors sometimes form party-based coalitions and vote in blocks to prevent members of opposing political parties from sitting on the executive board. So a party that does well in municipal election might be shut out of the municipal executive. For example, from 2002 to 2006, the municipal executive of Rotterdam consisted of municipal councillors from parties from the right of the spectrum (CDA, VVD and Leefbaar Rotterdam, the last of these being the most to the right). A mainstream party on the left, PvdA, had the second largest number of members on the Rotterdam municipal council, but they were kept out of the executive because of ideological conflicts with Leefbaar Rotterdam. The same happened in Groningen, but in reverse. Left-leaning parties elected in 2006 (PvdA, SP and the Groenlinks) kept members of parties on the right out of the executive, despite a strong performance in the polls.

Local government in the Netherlands
Provincial
  • States-Provincial (Provinciale Staten)
  • States Deputed (Gedeputeerde Staten)
  • Queen's Commissioner (Commissaris van de Koningin)
Water boards
  • General board (hoofdingelanden)
  • Executive board (college van dijkgraaf en heemraden)
  • Dike-reeve (dijkgraaf)
  • Executive (heemraad)
Municipal
  • Municipal council (gemeenteraad)
  • Municipal board (college van burgemeester en wethouders)
  • Mayor (burgemeester)
  • Alderman (wethouder)
Submunicipal
  • Submunicipalities of Amsterdam
  • Submunicipalities of Rotterdam
special municipalities
  • Island council
  • Governing council
  • Lieutenant governor

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