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Fortuyn and announced
In January 2002, it was announced that Fortuyn also would head the Livable Rotterdam ( LR ) list for the March 2002 local elections.
Wisely or unwisely, I have not taken my scepticism to be a reason for any active hostility to the Nouvelle Droite people, some of whom I count as friends ... Time permitting, I accept invitations from that side, so that I spoke at their conference in Antwerp in 2000, if only as a stand-in for an announced speaker who had cancelled at the last minute for health reasons ( Pim Fortuyn, no less, the Dutch liberal sociology professor who criticized Islam, subsequently went into politics, and ended up murdered by a leftist ).
The assassinated politician Pim Fortuyn was announced as the winner in a live television broadcast on November 15, 2004, two weeks after Theo van Gogh was murdered.
The amount of calls was so large that not all could be counted before the end of the show ; later it was announced that William of Orange had received the most votes, but only the votes that were counted before the end of the programme counted, so Fortuyn remained as number one.
Together with one of the leaders of Vlaams Belang, Filip Dewinter, in June 2005 he announced the founding of a think tank during a controversial meeting in the former house of murdered politician Pim Fortuyn.

Fortuyn and for
Fortuyn distanced himself from Hans Janmaat of the Centrum Democraten, who in the 1980s wanted to remove all foreigners from the country and was repeatedly convicted for discrimination and hate speech.
Contemporary Dutch politics is more polarized than it has been in recent years, especially on the issues for which Fortuyn was best known.
Fortuyn had advocated an amnesty for asylum seekers ' already residing in the Netherlands.
The coalition cabinet of Christian Democratic Appeal, Pim Fortuyn List and People's Party for Freedom and Democracy fell within three months, due to infighting within the LPF.
Theo van Gogh had been murdered a few days before by a Muslim, which likely affected people's voting in the TV contest for Fortuyn.
He has been a center of controversy for his views on homosexuality, which brought him into open conflict with the Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn.
Despite this, the authorities did not provide protection for Fortuyn, nor did he request protection.
Meindert Fennema, professor of political theory of ethnic relations at the University of Amsterdam, argued in 2006 that Janmaat was convicted for statements that are now commonplace due to changes in the political climate ( caused in part by the September 11 attacks, and the assassinations of Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh ).
* Recent celebrity deaths: In the Netherlands, controversial right wing politician Pim Fortuyn is shot dead when leaving a radio studio, nine days before the general election for the lower house of parliament.
The Lijst Pim Fortuyn ( LPF ) was the great winner, the party gained 26 of the 150 seats, a historic achievement for a new party.
During the tumultuous 2002 general election, which saw the murder of Pim Fortuyn, many people voted for the CDA, hoping that this party could bring some stability to Dutch politics.
On 6 May 2002, when he worked for radio station 3FM, he interviewed Pim Fortuyn.
In an interview with NRC Handelsblad on 1 July, Alexander Pechtold raised his suspicion that VVD and CDA had already for a long time been prepared to drop D66 from the coalition in favor of the support by Pim Fortuyn List ( LPF ).
Fortuyn had especially attacked immigration policies and also questioned many aspects of government by the previous ' purple ' cabinets of Wim Kok, which he blamed for everything from crime to waiting lists in health services.
In the 2002 election campaign the purple coalition came under heavy criticism of the populist politician Pim Fortuyn for mismanaging the public sector, migration and the integration of migrants.
Melkert and People's Party for Freedom and Democracy ( VVD ) leader Hans Dijkstal were the front runners to become the next Prime Minister, but the unexpected arrival of Pim Fortuyn of Livable Netherlands ( LN ) and later the Pim Fortuyn List ( LPF ), turned the polls.
The Labour Party suffered a landslide defeat in the election losing 23 seats, Melkert was blamed for the defeat primary because of his technocratic leadership in contrast to the more charismatic Fortuyn.
Focusing his campaign on issues of immigration, integration and the state of the public sector, Fortuyn was intent on exposing the PvdA as being responsible for what he termed, Eight years of Purple ruin – referring to the red and blue combination of the social and liberal coalition that had governed the Netherlands during the preceding eight years.
In several television debates between Melkert and Fortuyn it became apparent that Melkert was no match for Fortuyn's rather unconventional, though highly charismatic debating style.

Fortuyn and parliament
" The influential Dutch magazine Elsevier writes: " According to ( the LPF member of parliament ) Varela, it was widely known that Pim Fortuyn wanted nothing to do with Dewinter, who's party Vlaams Blok ( resurrected as Vlaams Belang ) had the previous year been forbidden due to racism.

Fortuyn and television
Fortuyn was dismissed as party leader the next day, and in a television interview said that the split was irreparable, although he would have preferred to remain in the party.

Fortuyn and interview
By strange coincidence, in 2002 the most vocal ' Leefbaar Rotterdam ' politician Pim Fortuyn was shot and killed by an animal rights activist at Hilversum Media Park just after finishing a radio interview.
Fortuyn was openly gay, and said in a 2002 interview that he was Catholic.
The attack took place in a parking lot outside a radio studio where Fortuyn had just given an interview.
After the interview De Wild and Fortuyn stepped outside where De Wild witnessed the assassination of Fortuyn.

Fortuyn and on
This happened, however, after a break between Fortuyn and Nagel during a Leefbaar Nederland board meeting in Hilversum on Fortuyn's anti-Islamic viewpoints.
* Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn was assassinated by environmentalist activist Volkert van der Graaf, on May 6, 2002.
Fortuyn was born on 19 February 1948 in Driehuis, as the third child to a Catholic family.
A one-time communist and former member of the social-democratic Labour Party, Fortuyn was elected " lijsttrekker " of the newly formed Livable Netherlands party by a large majority on 26 November 2001, prior to the Dutch general election of 2002.
Having been rejected by Livable Netherlands, Fortuyn founded his own party LPF ( Pim Fortuyn List ) on 11 February 2002.
To the surprise of many commentators and Dutch TV hosts, Fortuyn insisted on Fr.
Fortuyn proposed that all people who already resided in the Netherlands would be able to stay, but he emphasized the need of the immigrants to adopt Dutch society's consensus on human rights as their own.
During the 2002 campaign, Fortuyn was accused of being on the " extreme right ", although others saw only certain similarities.
In the end it was Pim Fortuyn, the electoral success of the LPF and namely the murder on Fortuyn which led to the definitive breakthrough.
The loss was blamed on the uncharismatic new leader Melkert, the perceived arrogance of the PvdA and the inability to answer to the right-wing populist issues Fortuyn raised, especially immigration and integration.
After gaining support in opinion polls, Fortuyn was assassinated on 6 May, days before the election.
The situation took a dramatic turn on 9 February, when Fortuyn was interviewed in de Volkskrant, one of the leading national newspapers.
He founded Pim Fortuyn List ( LPF ) on 11 February.
The local LR — which held on to Fortuyn as its leader — was hugely successful in the March 2002 local elections, as it won more than one third of the vote and became Rotterdam's strongest party.
During the 2002 campaign, Fortuyn was accused of being on the " extreme right ", although others saw only certain similarities.
Although the LPF was established post-9 / 11, Fortuyn had already developed a worldview based on the " clash between civilizations ", namely between " modernity " and Islam, or Western society and Islamic culture.
Following the murders of Pim Fortuyn ( in 2002 ) and Theo van Gogh ( in 2004 ) the political debate on the role of multiculturalism in the Netherlands reached new heights.
Her view on immigration has often led to her being compared to politicians such as Jean-Marie Le Pen in France and Pim Fortuyn in The Netherlands.
* not having enough focus and intelligence on political violence or environmental groups, particularly following the murder of Pim Fortuyn by an environmental radical
Information on the disks indicated that the service collected information on Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn and members of his party, as well as on left-wing activists.

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