page_title: Wim Kok
section_title: Parliamentary leader and Minister of Finance
hierarchical_section_title: Wim Kok / Political career / Parliamentary leader and Minister of Finance
caption_attribution_description: English: THE KREMLIN, MOSCOW. President Putin meeting with Prime Minister Wim Kok of the Netherlands.Русский: МОСКВА, КРЕМЛЬ. С Премьер-министром Нидерландов Вимом Коком.
context_page_description: Willem "Wim" Kok was a Dutch politician of the Labour Party and trade union leader who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 22 August 1994 until 22 July 2002.
  Kok studied Business administration at the Nyenrode Business School obtaining a Bachelor of Business Administration degree and worked as a trade union leader for the Trade Unions Association from 1961 until 1976 and serving as Chairman from 1972. In 1976 it merged to form the Federation Netherlands Labour Movement with Kok serving as its first chairman until 1986. After the election of 1986 Kok was elected as a Member of the House of Representatives taking office on 3 June 1986. Shortly after the election incumbent Leader Joop den Uyl announced he was stepping down and endorsed Kok as his successor taking office on 21 July 1986. For the election of 1989 Kok served as Lijsttrekker and made a coalition accord with incumbent Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers of the Christian Democratic Appeal which formed the Cabinet Lubbers III and became Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance taking office on 7 November 1989.
context_section_description: Kok was elected as a Member of the House of Representatives on 3 June 1986, after the Dutch general election of 1986. Soon after the election Joop den Uyl the Leader of the Labour Party and Parliamentary leader of the Labour Party in the House of Representatives announced that he was stepping down after serving twenty years as Leader of the Labour Party. Kok was elected to succeed him and became Party and Parliamentary leader of the Labour Party in the House of Representatives on 21 July 1986 and served as Opposition leader during the parliamentary period of the Cabinet Lubbers II.
  Kok lead his party in the Dutch general election of 1989. The Labour Party lost three seats but the following cabinet formation resulted in a coalition agreement with the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) which formed the Cabinet Lubbers III. Kok entered government for the first time and became both Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands and Minister of Finance, serving from 7 November 1989 until 22 August 1994.
caption: Prime Minister Wim Kok and President of Russia Vladimir Putin in Moscow on 19 January 2001.
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