Breakthrough (Dutch political history)

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The Breakthrough (in Dutch language: Doorbraak) is a Dutch political movement in the mid-1940s.

After the Second World War there was wide spread feeling that the pillarized politics has to be broken open. In order to force this breakthrough the socialist SDAP, the left-liberal VDB and the Christian-socialist CDU united to form the PvdA. They however did not gain enough support and the PvdA became encapsulated in the socialist pillar. In 1966 radically democratic D66 attempted another breakthrough of the political system, again unsuccessful.