Key facts
- Abbreviation
- CU
- Leader
- Mirjam Bikker ( list )
- Chairman
- Marco Vermin
- Leader in the senate
- Tineke Huizinga
- Leader in the house of representatives
- Mirjam Bikker
- Founded
- 22 January 2000 ( 2000-01-22 )
- Merger of
- Reformed Political League , Reformatory Political Federation
- Headquarters
- Partijbureau ChristenUnie, Johan van Oldebarneveltlaan 46, Amersfoort
- Youth wing
- PerspectieF
- Think tank
- Mr. G. Groen van Prinsterer Stichting
- Membership 2026
- 24,224
- Ideology
- Christian democracy Social conservatism
- Political position
- Economic : Centre to centre-left Social : Centre-right
- Religion
- Orthodox Protestant
- European affiliation
- European Christian Political Party
- European parliament group
- ECR Group (2009–2019), EPP Group (2019–2024)
- Benelux parliament group
- Christian Group
- Colours
- Sky blue , Dark blue
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- political party
- Country
- Netherlands
- Headquarters
- Amersfoort
- Chairperson
- Mirjam Bikker
- Official website
- www.christenunie.nl
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- Commons category
- ChristenUnie
- topic's main category
- Category:Christian Union (Netherlands)
- inception
- 2000-01-22
- member of
- European Christian Political Party
- short name
- CU
- political alignment
- centrism
- member category
- Category:Christian Union (Netherlands) politicians
- sRGB color hex triplet
- 00A7EB
- number of seats in assembly
- 3
- party chief representative
- Arie Slob
- member count
- 24224
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Encyclopedic overview
The Christian Union (Dutch: ChristenUnie [ˌkrɪstənˈyni, -təˈʔy-], CU) is a Christian democratic political party in the Netherlands. The CU is a centrist party, maintaining more progressive stances on economic, immigration and environmental issues while holding more socially conservative positions on issues, such as opposing abortion and euthanasia. The party describes itself as "social Christian".
The CU was founded in 2000 as a merger of the Reformed Political League (GPV) and Reformatory Political Federation (RPF). After doubling its seat tally in the 2006 Dutch general election, it became the smallest member of the fourth Balkenende cabinet, and since that time has been likewise part of the third Rutte cabinet and the fourth Rutte cabinet. In some elections it forms an alliance with the Calvinist Reformed Political Party (SGP), which, unlike the CU, is a testimonial party.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Christian Union” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.