Editing GroenLinks (section)

===1989–1994: completion of the merge and first term in parliament===
[[File:GreenLeft-1989.jpg|thumb|left|1989 election poster showing the old logo in which the pink lines and the blue spaces forming allude to a [[peace sign]].]]
In the [[1989 Dutch general election|1989 elections]], the PPR, PSP, CPN and EVP entered in the elections with one single list called Groen Links<!--with space before 1992-->. In the Netherlands, parties usually participate in the elections with one list for the whole country. The candidates on top of the list get the priority for the distribution of seats won. The GroenLinks list of candidates was organised in such a way that all the parties were represented and new figures could enter. The PPR, which had been the largest party in 1986 got the top candidate (the [[lead candidate]], [[Ria Beckers]]) and the number five; the PSP got the numbers two and six, the CPN the number three and the EVP number eleven. The first independent candidate was [[Paul Rosenmöller]], trade unionist from Rotterdam, on the fourth place. In the elections, the party doubled its seats in comparison to 1986 (from three to six), but the expectations had been much higher.<ref name="Illusie"/> In the 1990 municipal elections, the party fared much better, strengthening the resolve to cooperate.<ref name="Koole"/>

In the period 1989–1991, the merger developed further. A board was organised for the party-in-foundation and also a 'GroenLinks Council', which was supposed to control the board and the parliamentary party and stimulate the process of merger. In this council, all five groups – CPN, PPR, PSP, EVP and the Vereniging Groen Links – had seats on ratio of the number of their members. Originally, the three youth organisations, the CPN-linked [[General Dutch Youth League]], the PSP-linked [[Pacifist Socialist Young Working Groups]] and the PPR-linked Political Party of Radical Youth refused to merge, but under pressure of the government (who controlled their subsidies) they did merge to form [[DWARS]].<ref name="DNPP1990">{{Citation
|last=Lucardie
|first=Paul
|author-link=Paul Lucardie
 |author2=Marjolein Nieboer |author3=Ida Noomen
|title=Kroniek 1990. Overzicht van de partijpolitieke gebeurtenissen van het jaar 1990
|journal=Jaarboek DNPP
|publisher=DNPP
|location=Groningen
|year=1991
|url=http://www.rug.nl/dnpp/jaarboeken/jaarboek1990/index
|access-date=2008-04-28}}</ref> In 1990, some opposition formed against the moderate, green course of GroenLinks. Several former PSP members united in the "Left Forum" in 1992 – they would leave the party to join former PSP-leader Van der Spek to found the [[PSP'92]]. Similarly, former members of the CPN joined the [[League of Communists in the Netherlands]] to found the [[New Communist Party of the Netherlands|New Communist Party]] in the same year. In 1991, the congresses of the four founding parties (PSP, PPR, CPN and EVP) decided to officially abolish their parties.<ref name="Illusie"/>

GroenLinks had considerable problems formulating its own ideology. In 1990, the attempt to write the first manifesto of principles failed because of the difference between [[socialism|socialists]] and [[communism|communists]] on the one side and the more [[liberalism|liberal]] former PPR members on the other side.<ref name="DNPP1990"/> The second manifesto of principles – which was not allowed to be called that – was adopted after a lengthy debate and many amendments in 1991.<ref name="DNPP1990"/>

Although the party was internally divided, the GroenLinks parliamentary party was the only party in the Dutch parliament which opposed the [[Gulf War]].<ref name="DNPP1990"/> A debate within the party about the role military intervention led to a more-nuanced standpoint than the [[pacifism]] of some of its predecessors: GroenLinks would support [[peacekeeping]] missions as long as they were mandated by the [[United Nations]].<ref name="DNPP1990"/>

In the fall of 1990, MEP Verbeek announced that he would not, as he had promised, leave the European Parliament after two-and-a-half years to make room for a new candidate.<ref name="DNPP1990"/> He would continue as an independent and remain in parliament until 1994. In the [[1994 European Parliament election in the Netherlands|1994 European elections]], he would run unsuccessfully as top candidate of [[The Greens (Netherlands)|The Greens]].<ref name="DNPP1994">{{Citation
|last=Lucardie
|first=Paul
|author-link=Paul Lucardie
 |author2=J. Hippe |author3=G. Voerman
|title=Kroniek 1994. Overzicht van de partijpolitieke gebeurtenissen van het jaar 1994
|journal=Jaarboek DNPP
|publisher=DNPP
|location=Groningen
|year=1995
|url=http://www.rug.nl/dnpp/jaarboeken/jaarboek1994/index
|access-date=2008-04-28}}</ref>

In 1992, party leader [[Ria Beckers]] left the [[House of Representatives (Netherlands)|House of Representatives]] because she wanted more private time. Peter Lankhorst replaced her as chair ad interim, but he announced that he would not take part in the internal elections.<ref name="Van Schuur">{{Citation
|last=Lucardie
|first=Paul
|author-link=Paul Lucardie
 |author2=W.H. van Schuur |author3=G. Voerman
|title=Paul of Ina, Kanttekeningen bij de keuze van de politiek leider door GroenLinks
|journal=Jaarboek DNPP
|publisher=DNPP
|location=Groningen
|year=1994
|url=http://www.rug.nl/dnpp/jaarboeken/jaarboek1993/index
|access-date=2008-04-28}}</ref>