Catholic People's Party

Japanese: カトリック人民党 - かとりっくじんみんとう

...However, rapid economic growth caused severe labor shortages, soaring wages and prices, and the migration of foreign workers in the early 1960s. With the collapse of the fourth Drees government (1958), the era of coalition governments consisting of all parties except the Communist Party, which had dominated Dutch politics after the war, came to an end. The Catholic People's Party (KVP) and the Labor Party, which had been the pillars of the coalition government, deepened their conflict, and in the 1959 election, following these two parties, the Liberal Democratic People's Party (VVD) emerged as the third party. ...

From the Catholic Party

...However, the relationship between the Catholic Church and Catholic political parties varies considerably from country to country, and even within the same country over time. On the one hand, some parties state that they will "follow the instructions issued by the authority of the Church" (the 1945 manifesto of the Dutch Catholic People's Party, Katholieke Volkepartij), while others emphasize non-sectarianism and proclaim their independence from the Church. Today, the Catholic Church itself is gradually becoming non-political, and in that sense, the relationship between Catholic political parties and the Catholic Church is becoming increasingly tenuous.

*Some of the terminology used to refer to the "Catholic People's Party" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…しかし高度経済成長は60年代前半に激しい労働力不足，賃金･物価の高騰，外国人労働者の移住を引き起こした。第4次ドレース内閣の崩壊(1958)をもって，戦後オランダの政治を支配した，共産党を除く全政党による連立政権の時代は終りを告げ，連立政権の柱だったカトリック人民党(KVP)と労働党が対立を深め，59年の選挙では両党に続いて自由民主人民党(自民党。VVD)が第三党として浮上した。…

【カトリック政党】より

…しかしカトリック教会とカトリック政党との関係は，国によって，また同じ国でも時代によってかなり異なる。一方では〈教会の権威から出る指示に従う〉としているものもあれば(オランダのカトリック人民党Katholieke Volkepartijの1945年の綱領)，他方では非宗派性を強調して，教会からの自立をうたっているものもある。現在ではカトリック教会自身の姿勢がしだいに非政治的なものとなってきており，その意味でカトリック政党とカトリック教会との関係はますます希薄化しているといえよう。…

※「カトリック人民党」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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