Province of Overijssel: Verkiezingen 2014

Almelo PVA
Party Pretty Almelo (PVA) In many respects, the Party for Freedom (PVV) Geert Wilders directed. The visit of the provincial PVV States Group to the PVA in January figures prominently on the website. Now at election time, the PVA are giving clear signals that the potential PVV voters can vote on the PVA: “Vote for Freedom, Stem PVA”. Four years ago, this signal was good for two seats on the city council Almelose, though the fraction halved rupture after a few months. In 2014 PVA has also grouped under the umbrella rural OPA-. This movement Elderly Politics Active has a nationwide network set up where local (elderly) parties can join to.

Party leader Harry Olde (1947) hopes his success from 2010 to continue this year. Since the seventies he has made efforts to achieve electoral success by extreme right-wing parties. That led him to clubs like the Peasant Party, of Centrumpartij, CD of Janmaat, LPF Pim Fortuyn, the obscure game of the New Right where he 2006 still in Almelo for kandi bother to Proud Netherlands Rita Verdonk. The latter party he was ousted quickly because of his radical right past weather. In a recent interview Olde speaks of his fascination with Geert Wilders says he: "The PVV put Dutch interests first. The PVA doing locally with it. Our contacts at the provincial level are very good. "

Among the other candidates of the PVA are four candidates who were also involved in the New Right in Almelo. It is the former directors of LPF Almelo Rob Cutter (1952) Ronald Lubach (1966). There were Marieke van Hensbergen (1970) and Michel Loohuis (1986) vanaf 2006 active in New Right. PVA candidate Ben dark Ones (1947) comes from a different period of Olde's political life. He was in 1986 supporter of the Centrumpartij.

Yet the PVA's election is not about extreme. No big words are used on Islam or illegal. The PVA is focused on the social well-being, citizen participation and the treatment of animals. At the Public Order is the PVV sound above on itinerant Eastern Europe Haitian gangs that engage our open borders and impunity climate to strike. Already bears the PVA than typical solutions such as weather “more police on the streets” to avert this danger. The program grumbles something about positive discrimination and Islam, but not fly out of the bend as you would expect at a PVV game. Indeed, they even wrote about the arrival of new immigrants to integrate to make a contribution to society. So no closed borders in the PVA.

Almelo LKA
The second PVA councilor in 2010 was elected in Almelo Gerwin Kamphuis (1971). He was soon disagreements with Harry and the Olde seceded. In the current elections, he was leader of his own list Kamphuis Almelo (LKA). He wanted to join a local Liveable Party and Proud of the Netherlands, but all failed. In 2003 Kamphuis was still active at the national party's Conservatieven.nl Winny de Jong and Michiel Smit. This was an offshoot of the LPF. Michiel Smit later founded the New Right on, but known ditch Kamphuis is not here. The LKA in Almelo now get support from acquaintances of Kamphuis. There are also people who previously supported the Conservatives or were involved in the PVA. LKA of the election is not about right. Altogether the list Kamphuis does not give the impression of a far-right party.

Enschede Stadspartij
The Stadspartij Enschede seemed equally from the political scene to have disappeared. In municipal elections in 2006 she won no seats and 2010 they did not participate. The party leader is the former councilor Ferdi Lammerink (1945) Enschede. In the nineties he is friends with Willem van Straalen, the from 1994 Councillor for the Centre Democrats (CD) in Enschede. Rays of lives at one point even in the house of Lammerink. Also participating in the election of the CD Lammerink supports his friend Van Straalen. The Stadspartij has now presented no website or election. Then it is difficult to see what positions they have now. In 2003 Hofte councilor took the Stadspartij the national media by issuing a gay parade in the city. He later turned again and opened a gay bar. At that time presents itself as a supporter of the Stadspartij Pim Fortuyn and have links with the local department LPF.

Enschede OPA
The newcomers of Elders Active Politics (OPA) do it in Enschede. The frame is drawn by Wytse van der Veen (1959). Hij is in 2013 the secretary of the Foundation Enschede Now or Never, that together with the PVV against the arrival of a mosque protests.

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