When did Piet de Jong leave office as Prime Minister?
1971
1968
1970
1972
Answer
Piet de Jong left office as Prime Minister of the Netherlands in 1971. He had been in office since 1967, and his term ended when the Christian Democratic Appeal lost the general election of that year. De Jong was succeeded by Joop den Uyl, the leader of the Labour Party.
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