Catholic People's Party

Catholic People's Party Katholieke Volkspartij
Abbreviation	KVP
Founder	Carl Romme Josef van Schaik Laurentius Nicolaas Deckers Frans Teulings Max Steenberghe Jan de Quay Louis Beel Teun Struycken
Founded	22 December 1945; 78 years ago (1945-12-22)
Dissolved	27 September 1980; 43 years ago (1980-09-27)
Preceded by	Roman Catholic State Party
Merged into	Christian Democratic Appeal
Headquarters	Mauritskade 25 The Hague
Youth wing	KVPJO
Think tank	Centrum voor Staatkundige Vorming
Ideology	Christian democracy Political Catholicism Cultural pluralism Conservative liberalism[1]
Political position	Centre to centre-right
Religion	Roman Catholic
European affiliation	European Union of Christian Democrats[2]
European Parliament group	Christian Democratic Group
Politics of Netherlands Political parties Elections

The Catholic People's Party (Dutch: Katholieke Volkspartij, KVP) was a Catholic Christian democratic^[3] political party in the Netherlands. The party was founded in 1945 as a continuation of the interwar Roman Catholic State Party, which was in turn a successor of the General League of Roman Catholic Caucuses. The party was in government throughout its existence. In 1977, a federation of parties including the Catholic People's Party, the Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) and the Christian Historical Union (CHU) ran together under the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) banner. The three participating parties formally dissolved to form the CDA in 1980.