List of prime ministers of the Netherlands

Five former officeholders (Wim Kok, Dries van Agt, Piet de Jong, Ruud Lubbers and Jan Peter Balkenende) with Prime Minister Mark Rutte, in July 2011

The following is a list of prime ministers of the Netherlands since the inception of that office as a result of a revision of the Constitution of the Netherlands in 1848. The prime minister is the chairman of the Council of Ministers; since 1945 he has held the Dutch title of minister-president van Nederland, also referred to as premier.

Mark Rutte is currently serving as the 42nd prime minister of the Netherlands, having been appointed to the office for the first time on 14 October 2010. Rutte resigned on 8 July 2023 and will be in charge of a caretaker (i.e. ad interim or acting government) until the 2023 Dutch general election.


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