This year, no less than twenty parties participated in the municipal elections in Rotterdam. two sides covered in our examination of the candidates. Both are newcomers to Rotterdam, PVV and Jesus Lives. This is the first part of a series of short articles about the local elections 2018. Jesus Survived The orthodox Christian party takes Jesus Lives… Read more
The participating parties extreme right or the ordinary right-wing parties that have an appeal to right-wing extremists? If we only look at its conclusions sometimes difficult to pull the party programs. Maybe a look behind the scenes? Which people are involved in this election? The Freedom Party of Geert Wilders but in two counties along…. Read more
One of the main right-wing parties in the Netherlands has fallen apart. The people of the Pim Fortuyn List (LPF) have spread over several new parties. Also from the VVD are some right-wing MPs walked for new political initiatives. How should we interpret these new parties? Are they extreme right? If we only look at the manifestos… Read more
Leefbaar Rotterdam raadslid Michiel Smit: “Er is een ding erger dan een Neger, een blanke Neger!” Op 6 maart schudt Rotterdam op zijn grondvesten. Pim Fortuyns Leefbaar Rotterdam haalt bijna 35 procent van de stemmen en komt met zeventien personen in de Rotterdamse raad. De kersverse raadsleden hebben enkele overeenkomsten, but also major differences…. Read more
Out of nowhere two seats in parliament in elections last March, spacious 15.000 members in just one year and an upward trend in the polls; the Forum for Democracy (FVD) Thierry Baudet is a serious political factor. With some trepidation watching other right-wing parties in his march.
With the planned participation in the municipal elections 62 municipalities the Party for Freedom also get the money worries. Would Geert Wilders in those municipalities already make his party member candidates, the PVV has over a thousand members. If he thereby also a scientific design bureau, his party entitled to a half million per year subsidy.
Few people saw the two most remarkable politicians of the past fifteen years as close to work. Ronald Sørensen (69) is founder of Liveable Rotterdam, where he Pim Fortuyn reaped. And he left the party 2011, when Geert Wilders to become senator asked him for the PVV. main agreement? "They ask the problem of the established order."
Spacious 14 years after his death Pim Fortuyn still extremely popular in Rotterdam. So was this afternoon presented a youth section of Liveable Rotterdam. Young Liveable Rotterdam must keep alive the legacy of Pim. And it shows still best to be a problem ...
Time for cake at the PVV, The party celebrates its tenth anniversary. Several times the political end of Geert Wilders was predicted, but his party was always upright. And that will 10 his year as, predict co- and opponents in politics. "He must go on.’
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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