When they are almost wiped out in the 1986 elections, the small left parties realize that they have to do something. On that election night in 1986, only one seat remains of the pacifist PSP, while the environmentally-oriented PPR still has two. The communist CPN and the evangelical EPP disappear from the House completely. Is collaboration perhaps an idea? A few people from each party secretly meet in Sittard, far away from The Hague. With Ina Brouwer, Andrée van Es, Bram van Ojik, Wim de Boer and Joost Lagendijk, among others, we look back on the process that led to the formation of GroenLinks.
