Composition
The cabinet consists of 16 ministers and ten state secretaries (junior ministers). These positions are divided among the coalition members according to their size in parliament:
- The CDA supplies eight ministers and five junior ministers
- The VVD supplies six ministers and four junior ministers
- D66 supplies two ministers and one junior minister.
Of the 26, 18 were also in the first Balkenende cabinet. This is indicated by an asterisk (*) in the list below.
Read more about this topic: Second Balkenende Cabinet
Famous quotes containing the word composition:
“Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.”
—Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890)
“Since body and soul are radically different from one another and belong to different worlds, the destruction of the body cannot mean the destruction of the soul, any more than a musical composition can be destroyed when the instrument is destroyed.”
—Oscar Cullman. Immortality of the Soul or Resurrection of the Dead? The Witness of the New Testament, ch. 1, Epworth Press (1958)
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