In the opinion poles, the CDA is narrowly behind the Work and Progress Party (Pvda, opposition), a party that also recommends drastic reforms. Wouter Bos, the opposition leader, saw his popularity nosedive when he proposed that pensioners finance their own retirement. On 3rd September, after a review of his script, he had to announce a milder version of this reform, as well as his programme as a whole.
n “option” on the table during collective bargaining. The Dutch Union Federation (FNV) asserted, “The threat of workforce shortages cannot be solved this way.” and, furthermore, reproached the CDA for wanting to impose this reform “from above” in a paternalistic” way. For its part, the VNO-NCW recommended the retirement age be raised to 65, an unpopular measure that the CDA does not want to risk. The Christian Democrat government of Jan Peter Balkenende, in power since 2003, which has already
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