Wim Kok

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Wim Kok was a Dutch Labour Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1994 to 2002, leading two centrist "purple" coalition governments.

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Wim Kok canonical 9

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Dutch politician
human
prime minister
awardReceived Grand Croix de la Légion d'honneur
surface form: Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour

Order of Orange-Nassau
Order of the Netherlands Lion
causeOfDeath heart failure
coalitionGovernment Cabinet-Kok I
surface form: First Kok cabinet

Cabinet-Kok II
surface form: Second Kok cabinet
countryOfBirth Netherlands
countryOfCitizenship Netherlands
dateOfBirth 1938-09-29
dateOfDeath 2018-10-20
educatedAt Nyenrode Business University
familyName Kok
fieldOfWork politics
trade unionism
givenName Willem
headOfGovernmentOf Netherlands
knownFor Dutch welfare state reforms
leading purple coalitions
languageSpoken Dutch
English
memberOfPoliticalParty Dutch Labour Party
surface form: Labour Party (Netherlands)
nickname Willem
surface form: Wim
notableWork Cabinet-Kok I
surface form: Kok I cabinet reforms

Kok II cabinet reforms
officeEndTime 2002-07-22
officeStartTime 1994-08-22
placeOfBirth Bergambacht
placeOfDeath Amsterdam
politicalOrientation centrist
social-democratic
positionHeld Chairman of the Dutch Trade Union Federation (FNV)
Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Leader of the Labour Party (Netherlands)
Member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands
Member of the Senate of the Netherlands
Minister of Finance of the Netherlands
Parliamentary leader of the PvdA in the House of Representatives
President of the European Trade Union Confederation
Prime Minister of the Netherlands
religion Protestant background
replacedBy Jan Peter Balkenende
replaces Ruud Lubbers
residence Amsterdam
sexOrGender male
workLocation The Hague

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Labour Party notableMember Wim Kok
subject surface form: Labour Party (Netherlands)
Ruud Lubbers succeededBy Wim Kok
Kok hasNotableBearer Wim Kok
Bergambacht hasBirthplaceOf Wim Kok