Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Party history [ ] Before 1968 [ ] The foundation of the PPR is linked to formation of the and the (CDA). After the it became clear that a cabinet would be formed by the (ARP) and (CHU), the (KVP) and the (VVD). Forces within the KVP and ARP had hoped for the formation of a cabinet with the (PvdA) without the participation of the CHU and VVD. In March 1967 a group of 'regret voters' (ARP-members who regretted voting ARP) published an advertisement in the Protestant newspaper, aimed at the leadership of the ARP: they claimed that the left-wing, so called 'evangelically radical', ideal of the ARP could not be realised in a cabinet with the VVD. In April this group began to meet regularly with dissidents from the KVP in the Hotel Americain, this gave the group the name 'American Group'.
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The group included, prominent ARP politician, his son,, former KVP prime minister, and, member of the KVP and future. In May the group became a formal organisation, the Working Group Christian Radicals, which was oriented at making their mother parties more progressive. They had some success in the KVP, which was seeking new allies and a new image, after it had lost the. Poster for the 1974 elections showing the green nature of the party On 27 April 1968 part of the group of Catholic radicals left the KVP and formed the Political Party of Radicals (PRP). Prominent radicals, like Lubbers and Cals, did not join the party. A group of radical KVP MPs led by left the KVP parliamentary party and formed their own group-Aarden, the parliamentary party of the PPR. The party is joined by some prominent 'regret-voters' from the ARP, most prominently Bas de Gaay Fortman.
The party began to co-operate closely with the Labour Party (PvdA), the newly founded (D66) and initially with the left-wing (PSP) in the so-called Progressive Accords (PAK). The parties proposed common election manifestos and formed a. The PSP left the alliance before the negotiations ended, because the alliance was not enough. The PPR participated in the as part of the PAK. The PPR won only two seats, while the PAK wins only 52 seats, a third of parliament.
Jacques Aarden led the party in parliament. 
Some prominent members left the PPR, because they think the party has failed. The was formed by the ARP, KVP, CHU, VVD and the. In the the parties tried again. The PAK now won 56 seats and the PPR 7.
Former ARP-politician led the party in the elections. A continuation of the, which fell within one year is excluded. The only possibility is a centre-left government with the PAK parties and the Christian democratic parties. The PAK parties refuse this possibility and want to form a PAK minority cabinet.