Supporters of the Liberal democratic party D66 and the left-wing greens GroenLinks have started a campaign to get the two parties to merge.

The two parties have many standpoints in common and should combine to create a powerful ‘social Liberal’ party, supporters of the plan say.
Both parties have 10 seats in parliament at the moment. But by appealing to socially-minded Liberals from the VVD, CDA and PvdA, the new party could win upwards of 30 seats, the website nieuwepartij.nl states.
Leaders
Intiative taker Stefan Hoevenaar told the NRC that they decided deliberately not to inform the party leaders prior to launching the campaign.
‘People who depend on the existence of their party will only think about a merger when they are on the verge of vanishing. And that is not the case at the moment,’ Hoevenaar told the NRC.
D66 leader Alexander Pechtold has yet to comment on the suggestion.
But GroenLinks leader Femke Halsema, once voted Liberal politician of the year by the VVD’s youth wing, used the micro-blogging system to ask if the idea is a hoax.
GroenLinks itself was created in 1990 out of a grouping of a number of small, left-wing and green parties, including the Dutch Communist Party and Pacifist Socialist Party.