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Wim Kok

Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1994 to 2002

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 13, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Willem "Wim" Kok was a Dutch politician and trade union leader who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 22 August 1994 until 22 July 2002. He was a member of the Labour Party (PvdA).

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“Wim Kok” enters the record as prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1994 to 2002. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Prime, Minister and Netherlands can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Wim Kok” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.