Amsterdam: Verkiezingen 2014

As usual, the Amsterdam welcomes voter is a bombardment of candidate lists. All kinds of splinter factions make a bid for the apparently coveted council seat. The counter is this year at a whopping 27 parties.

Gay Discrimination
Delano Fields (1967) seems no chance with his one-man list of Republican Political Party. Especially since he is in liberal Amsterdam four years ago, many did frowning brow with his confusing statements against homosexuality. He was interviewed by local TV as party leader. Many people were hurt and they did this declaration. His former party expelled him. In 2013 Felter was acquitted because the judges felt important free speech during an election campaign than the right to protection against discriminatory statements.

PVV A?

Amsterdam is also not undisputed Hans Bremer (1955) who gradually earns the predicate party hopper. Ever from the VVD he came into 2002 up with the party Survived Amsterdam! According to some members, this was actually a LPF department and Bremer was then also a member of the LPF. Later, he was active at Proud Netherlands and now he is the leader of the Party for Free Ajax (PVVA). Winged Pim Fortuyn cry “At Your Service” stands prominently on the website PVVA. Al the verkiezingsdeelnames braken in Bremen 2004 when he fell into disrepute because of rumblings at enshrined the water board elections. Fraud could have been committed with the support signatures.
As a homeowner and real estate speculator in Amsterdam Bremer left his premises so long vacant they were finally cracked. In 2002 the story came out that he threatened these crackers with a gang. For now, the PVVA positions taken against the reception of asylum seekers. The influx of Eastern Europeans in the labor market should be limited. The presentation seems like Bremer his party as a PVV Amsterdam will present. In March he is in any case “fierce” the news that Amsterdam has received a multimillion grant for two mosques.

Leefbaar Amsterdam

Henk Bakker junior (1969) has taken up the torch of his father Henk Bakker senior after which 2008 died. Their former party Livable Amsterdam '92 (LA ’92) is fatal gone. Some former stakeholders LA'92 are currently in the news because of the theft of large sums of monies fraction. LA'92 profiled itself as a nation right game with periodic extreme glitch in the area of ​​violence and discrimination. The current Liveable Amsterdam gives the impression to be a restart of LA '92. However, there are also people from other parties such as Pride in Netherlands. On the website of the Amsterdam Liveable lines are simply extended. They now write: “On the initiative of Livable Amsterdam was the term of office 2002-2006 Preventive body established in Amsterdam.”
Henk Bakker Jr.. was ten years ago, also active in the LPF and several offshoots thereof. He participated in a campaign against the use of the English language at Schiphol. This action was organized by the rightwing extremist group Taalverdediging. In the positions Liveable Amsterdam now on the site we read that the party against “influx of disadvantaged immigrants” and that they are afraid that Islam with Sharia law, the traditional Amsterdam values ​​will hijack. Therefore wants Liveable Amsterdam on the subsidized "we" feeling. There's more CCTV in the town and the Zero Tolerance policy of Liveable Rotterdam should be copied to Amsterdam.

Libertariërs

On the second place of the Libertarian Party is Nathan Bouscher (1983) Amsterdam. In the media, he has presented in recent years as a Jewish supporter of the Freedom Party. In 2006 he helped the PVV already in the elections for the House.
On behalf of a Jewish youth organization he did later participated in meetings and dialogues with Moroccan youth. In an article in 2011 put it here very against it because it would have been to no avail. He writes that the dialogue is a pointless goal in itself of “multiculturalisten” and the project would have been attracted careerists. According Bouscher served only to the “failed integration policy of disguising the past decades.” Because his Moroccan interlocutors wanted to fight Islamophobia they created a “artificial victimization”. His former discussion partners did not agree with him and saw Bouscher's play just as an argument why the search for dialogue between communities is still desperately needed. The question the intentions of traveling Bouscher in the dialogue were actually. In the New Israelite Weekly he said: that he's in 2002 took pity though that the murderer of Fortuyn was not a Muslim. Dan was Netherlands namely 'awakened'. What Bouscher exactly represents at this 'wake up' as we prefer to think not. Hatred and segregation usually do not lead to a fine society. In the Libertarian Party run anyway birds of all sorts around, so is a half-Moroccan man the leader. The party wants especially to abolish many regulations and taxes. The motto is “freedom”, especially in the economic field.

Strength!
In Elderly Party Amsterdam we find a candidate Conny de Bree (1946) who still lives in Amsterdam. She comes from Hoofddorp and there councilor for the extreme right Fortuynist game Forza! Haarlemmermeer. She was once voted for Proud Netherlands, but came late 2012 Forza trial because she had criticized her work. Also Forza! it was not a success and she would end up in a low spot on the list of candidates. When she came back to live here knew Forza with some difficulty that she interim to the PVV adepts of Social Right Haarlemmermeer moved. She is not a candidate for Forza 2014 become more and opt for the Elderly Party Amsterdam. Perfectly this party does not belong to the national network OPA.

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