As if there are not yet enough elections, inhabitants have a number of counties in late November to the polls for municipal reorganization elections. Both in Zwijndrecht in Oss are exciting developments.
Livable Zwijndrecht
Zwijndrecht joins the NNP and submitted a list of eleven candidates. The list itself has few surprises: some old friends and some new NNP'ers. What, however, is all the more striking, is that the NNP framework also called Livable Zwijndrecht claimed. Exactly one week after the breakthrough of Liveable Rotterdam party leader Pim Fortuyn as the association was officially established. The NNP'ers wanted both prevent another group could participate under this name, and thus compete with the NNP. On the other hand the plan itself to attract more votes by as “Livable Zwijndrecht – NNP” join. At the founding though no effort was made to hide the background of this Liveable loot: two of the three board members come from the NNP.
Bert Heidekamp has been involved since its inception and is the NNP since two years, the national treasurer. This same position he also holds at the beginning Liveable Zwijndrecht. He is now the leader of the NNP in Zwijndrecht. Also Janny Bom-Jurgens has since its establishment in the NNP active. The first few months it is officially the president of Livable Zwijndrecht. Interest in the Liveable movement of Bom-Jurgens is incidentally not today or yesterday. She was late 2001 Already a member of Liveable Netherlands (#1) and even took a stab at a position on the list of candidates for the parliamentary elections. Despite years of activism for successively Centre Party, CD, VNN and NNP gave as her political past been on only member of the VVD to be. Faced with its activities for the extreme right they denied everything, but a place on the list of candidates has not been.
In the summer, however, there seems to be a thing to go wrong. According to Bert Heidekamp Janny Bomb Jurgens unwilling to deal with the Liveable Zwijndrecht plan. At that time the board will still be complemented by two other NNP'ers, Lauran Hal and Pascal Abbel and leave Heidekamp and Bom-Jurgens governance. Eventually succeed not to get in a line and the Party only if it NNP.
LPF Us
Also in Oss his reclassification elections. In the stronghold of the SP hopes a local group LPF'ers a chance to make. Initially a strange incident occurs. There is a party in July “LPF afdeling Us / Fortuynlijk afdeling Us” registered at the Chamber of Commerce. The initiator of this is Peter Haex from 60 kilometers away lie the Weert. What Haex’ intentions are not entirely clear. Until then, he was known only as an active member of the CD.
Peter Haex
He was twice a candidate for the CD (in 1994 en in 1997) and regional board. Additionally Haex a controversial past in a very different plane. In 1984 He was treasurer of a youth organization, but fell into disrepute due to the direct contact with the children and steal 5000 gulden. Ten years later, he was sentenced to community service for committing fornication with underage girls.
This past interrupts him and he will be put on non-active by the LPF and put out the department Oss. Remarkably, the LPF stated that they advance or were aware of his past CD, but not the adultery case. Furthermore, they decided that he should remain a party member, but also can perform any function. He himself announced after the uproar that he will participate in the elections with Local 2002 Oss, however, there is no list of candidates submitted. Further, he says: “Moreover, there are more, in the National Council and on the list for the parliamentary elections, who previously were members of the CD, there have been even on the list for the House. How they solve that further, their care. Everything I say about it, You can check if. Grab the lists of the CD but and compare with the LPF, then you have to address as a number of names. At a meeting in Rotterdam I saw several old acquaintances.”
However, the circuit Oss went through and now does so with the elections. Before the party had 20 supporting collect signatures. That may be so Haex has a controversial political past, in it he does certainly among one of the supporters: Bart Amelsfort. Of Amelsfort ex-member of the CP'86 and Action Front National Socialists (ANS). In april 1993 must be a co-ANS'er, Gerrit Gerritsma appear in court for the shooting of a man. The ANS performs a solidarity action and Van Amelsfort joins. A group of neo-Nazis storming the steps of the court in Leeuwarden on. They are armed and wearing helmets, balaclavas and swastika bands. There they are all arrested. Of Amelsfort condemned for this action to 80 hours of community service and 500 guilder fine.
Very impressed with this conviction of Amelsfort is not. Six months later he gives namely a pistol in custody at CP'86 foreman Constant Kusters. However, this provides him an unexpected problem, when the police a few weeks later, do a search at Kusters and find two firearms with ammunition. Kusters explains to the police that one of the two pistols from Amelsfort is.
Apparently Van Amelsforts's interest in the Dutch politics still not quenched.
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(1) – Op 25 November she was present at the general meeting of Liveable Netherlands where Pim Fortuyn was elected party leader, was exactly seven days earlier they still present an NNP meeting in Amsterdam.
