Editing Wim Kok (section)

===Parliamentary leader and Minister of Finance===
[[File:FNV voorzitter Kok in gesprek met premier Van Agt in het gebouw van de Sociaal E, Bestanddeelnr 930-5965.jpg|thumb|left|220px|Trade union leader Wim Kok and Prime Minister [[Dries van Agt]] during a meeting of the [[Social and Economic Council]] in [[The Hague]] on 20 December 1979]] 

Kok was elected to the [[House of Representatives (Netherlands)|House of Representatives]] on 3 June 1986, after the [[1986 Dutch general election|1986 general election]]. Soon after the election [[Joop den Uyl]], the [[Leader of the Labour Party (Netherlands)|leader of the Labour Party]] and the party's [[parliamentary leader]] in the House of Representatives, announced that he was stepping down after serving twenty years as party leader. Kok was elected to succeed him and became party and parliamentary leader of the Labour Party in the House of Representatives on 21 July 1986, serving as [[Leader of the Opposition|opposition leader]] during the parliamentary period of the [[second Lubbers cabinet]].<ref name=guard>{{cite news |last1=Vat |first1=Dan van der |title=Wim Kok obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/22/wim-kok-obituary |access-date=22 October 2018 |work=The Guardian |date=22 October 2018 |language=en}}</ref>

Kok led his party in the [[1989 Dutch general election|1989 general election]]. The Labour Party lost three seats, but the following cabinet formation resulted in a coalition agreement with the [[Christian Democratic Appeal]] (CDA), which formed the [[third Lubbers cabinet]]. Kok entered government for the first time and became both [[Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands]] and [[Ministry of Finance (Netherlands)|Minister of Finance]], serving from 7 November 1989 until 22 August 1994.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Corder |first1=Mike |title=Former Dutch PM Wim Kok dies at 80, haunted by Srebrenica |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/former-dutch-prime-minister-wim-kok-dies-at-age-80/2018/10/20/79fc18d4-d488-11e8-a4db-184311d27129_story.html?noredirect=on |newspaper=Washington Post |date=20 October 2018 |language=en}}</ref>