Op 10 June, the voters can vote again for the members of the European Parliament. The far-right party New Right does with 25 candidates competing. A number of them has an interesting background. One part is taken from the LPF, but many have had contacts with more radical organizations like the NNP, the… Read more
Op 11 September, unfolds a bizarre spectacle at the statue of Pim Fortuyn in Rotterdam. There gathers a group of people for a demonstrative procession to the 11 commemorate September attacks in America. The organizing committee particularly wants to commemorate the Dutch victims and expresses its concern about Muslim organizations in the Netherlands… Read more
Their political adventure with the LPF was not successful, but Fortuynisten of yesteryear seem to have done very well in municipal elections. ,,We have learned our lesson.”
Former LPF leader Mat Herben makes his comeback in politics. He is second on the list of the party Local Montfoort, die 21 March participate in the municipal elections.
Where were you on the day that Pim Fortuyn was murdered? "I remember it exactly", Daniel says Sinke (27). He came to Rotterdam from Flushing and waving a flag Fortuyn to the stage where this Saturday's murder 15 year commemorated ago. The flag is the head of Fortuyn by text: "Let's watch over the freedom of speech."
He is known as someone who likes to control everything. Today Geert Wilders suddenly announced that the PVV 60 municipalities will participate in the municipal elections. His party is ready? Matt Herbert thinks it. “He has learned from the chaos at the LPF.”
For new right-wing parties, it is difficult to find a new leader as the old one is dismissal,. Most new players in recent years disappeared when their leader stopped or still smoldered moment: Article 50 disappeared after the resignation of Daniël van der Stoep, Party for the Netherlands after the departure of Hilbrand Nawijn, the Democratic Political Turning Point after the departure of Hero Brinkman and Proud of the Netherlands were discharged after Rita Verdonk.
Most politicians are unknown, but the political parties on the right that almost all. Parties like the LPF, Proud of the Netherlands and the PVV are organized around a leader and it is therefore granted almost all the media attention. The LPF had except Matt Herbert barely known politicians, except Joost Eerdmans. Verdonk was the only face Proud of the Netherlands and many PVV MPs are hardly known.
This article presents an agency-based approach to the success of radical right-wing populist parties. It posits that radical right parties will only experience sustained electoral success when they are built prior to their electoral breakthrough and when they institutionalise rapidly. The process of institutionalisation will progress more quickly when radical right parties have a leader with strong internal leadership qualities and when sufficient attention is paid to the recruitment, training and socialisation of candidates. The argument is illustrated through a comparison between two Dutch radical right parties: the Lijst Pim Fortuyn (LPF) and the Partij Voor de Vrijheid (PVV). The two cases offer a compelling example of learning effects in politics: Geert Wilders (PVV) observed the collapse of the LPF and has avoided making the same mistakes.
This is the report of an investigation into the identity of Lonsdale youth in the municipality Werkendam. Following this study, the structural problems of discrimination and right-wing utterances by young people from this town. The study was developed in collaboration with Bureau Discriminatiezaken Central and West Brabant and Palette, support center for multicultural development in North Brabant. The study sought to understand the identity of Lonsdale youth. Identity is constructed in different ways and by different stakeholders. It consists of ascriptive and zelfascriptieve aspects, that is to say, the identity which people attach respectively to others and to itself. In this study both aspects have been examined. For this, a qualitative study was conducted, in which use is made of data-triangulation. Data obtained from documents, observations and interviews are combined used to answer the research question.
There are a total 66 newspaper articles analyzed to investigate what image newspapers have the identity of Lonsdale youth. It has emerged that the newspapers construct a stereotype of Lonsdalers, being adapted in more extreme or more moderate sentence depends on the social context. The stereotype is that Lonsdale youth have negative views about immigrants and that they feel threatened by them. In addition, the Lonsdalers attributed extreme right nationalist sympathies and feelings.
In the fifth reporting Monitoring racism and the extreme right are the years 2001 and - where possible - 2002 central. The attacks on the United States 11 september 2001 and the murder of Pim Fortuyn 6 May 2002 have had a significant impact on the overall picture of this reporting period. Both events have left deep marks on the interethnic relations in the Netherlands. These traces can be found in the fifth reporting. It is questions like: increases or decreases the number of racist violence in Netherlands? Which right-wing political parties have disappeared and which come in its place? The number of discrimination cases that reaches the public prosecutor or decreases? And what be provided there for business and to what extent that lead to convictions? The initiative for the project Monitoring racism and the extreme right is the mid-nineties taken by the Leiden University. The monitoring project is now jointly conducted by Leiden University and the Anne Frank. This report was made possible with support from the Management Integration and Coordination Minorities of the Ministry of Justice.
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