The Christian Democratic party is a conservative party which has ‘wrongly followed the call for progressive thinking’, defence minister Hans Hillen says in an interview with the Volkskrant.

And the new cabinet – with the VVD Liberals and allied to the anti-Islam PVV – has allowed the party to position itself correctly, Hillen says.
‘In nearly every country where they exist, Christian Democratic parties are among the conservative parties. And that is logical, because Christian values are based on a book that is at least 2,000 years old,’ Hillen told the paper.
The CDA is conservative in the sense of ‘generating a strong sense of social responsibility between citizens and the government, not in the sense of reactionary or Liberal right-wing’.
The interview coincided with the CDA’s autumn conference, which took place in Utrecht.
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