Politiek in de marge
With extreme right parties in government in Austria and Italy, and Jean-Marie Le Pen contesting the run-off in the 2002 presidential elections in France, few people will dispute their continuing relevance in the politics of Western Europe. Indeed, ever since the first small electoral successes of parties like the Centrumpartij in the Netherlands or the Front National in France in the early 1980s, the extreme right has been the most discussed group of parties both in and outside of the scholarly community. Thousands of newspaper articles and hundreds of pieces of scholarly work have been devoted to extreme right parties, predominantly describing their history, leaders or electoral successes, as well as proclaiming their danger. Remarkably little serious attention has been devoted to their ideology, however. This aspect of the extreme right has been considered to be known to everyone. The few scholars that did devote attention to the ideology of the contemporary extreme right parties have primarily been concerned with pointing out similarities with the fascist and National Socialist ideologies of the pre-war period. If the similarities were not found, this was often taken as ‘proof ’ that the extreme right hides its (true) ideologies, rather than as a motivation to look in a different direction.
DE CENTRUMPARTIJ
Center democrats or democratic centralist?
The Centre Party has opted for a more militant course where party discipline is called a prerequisite. In the recent power struggle by both the moderate and the radical wing has used many (on)actual arguments in order the
opposition to disable.
Developments within the CP appear reached a crucial stage regarding whether or not further antidemocratic opsteIling. The conflict, that forms the basis of the current power struggle, lies not so much in the political field, but rather on the grounds of the personal differences between the Member of Parliament and the party janmaat KONST. The party can be described as an idealist, that its own position
within the party is of secondary importance to the eight party interest.
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Right-wing extremism
The Centre Party
Four years after its creation, the Centre Party seems especially considering the prosperous-looking election forecasts gradually to gain a foothold in the Dutch political system. That this growth is not without snags goes especially evident from the internal conflicts within the party. The assertion that the Centre Party to its own division will go down at this stage, however, is too far-reaching assertion; that the growth process as a result of the lack of the necessary homogeneity will be hampered, however, is almost fixed.
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THE CENTRE PARTY IN RISE
The municipal elections in Almere have seen some remarkable results given, In the first place the profits of the Centre Party which profit only difficult but can be attributed to its position on the immigration policy. The CP-profit has a lot of responses, provoked allegations and speculations. Some commentators speak of a similar situation as in the thirties (attendance NSB) or draw a comparison with the heyday of the Peasant Party. What is the level of similarities and differences?
History Center Party (CP)
The forerunner of the Centre Party, the National Centre Party (NCP) in December 1979 Amsterdam founded as a new political organization alongside the National Party Netherlands (NPN). The creation of the National Centre Party was partly a
due to the refusal of the mayor of The Hague – two occasions, namely on 24 november in 8 december 1979 – the NPN to grant a demonstration permit. The applications were rejected on the basis of the judgment, that this party would be a fascist and racist organization. This view was also aired in the media, which prompted several groups to send letters of protest against the demonstration.
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