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lost its majority, and after two months of efforts a coalition headed by the Anti-Revolutionary
Party formed a government. This cabinet fell in 1972, however, and a caretaker government
ruled until May 1973, when Joop den Uyl, leader of the Labor Party, was sworn in as prime
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minister of a five-party coalition. When Suriname attained full independence in 1975, hundreds
of thousands of Surinamese immigrants further burdened the Dutch economy. (3)
In 1977, following parliamentary elections in the spring, the governing coalition of den Uyl fell
apart over proposed reforms. A new prime minister, Christian Democrat Andreas van Agt, was
sworn in later in the year. In 1980 Princess Beatrix succeeded to the throne on the abdication of
her mother, Queen Juliana. Van Agt's cabinet lost its parliamentary majority in May 1981, but
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