Ideology
DS'70 saw itself as a social-democratic party. Its founders thought that the mainstream Dutch social-democratic party PvdA was becoming too radical in its economic and international policy and that the New Left was having too great an impact on the PvdA. DS'70 was a fiercely anti-communist party. It supported the American involvement in Vietnam, NATO cooperation, and a strong defence policy.
The party was fiscally conservative, supporting a balanced budget. One of its main issues was battling inflation. Therefore the party wanted to restrict government spending and implement the principle of profit for many government services.
The DS'70 was aware of the problems of migration in urban areas; the party wanted to restrict the migration of Dutch citizens from Surinam.
However, the party did support a modern natural environmental policy with strong public transport and restrained automobile use.
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