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Fortuyn was compared with the politicians Jörg Haider and Jean-Marie Le Pen in the foreign press.
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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.
* It was the location of the assassination of politician Pim Fortuyn.
* Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn was assassinated by environmentalist activist Volkert van der Graaf, on May 6, 2002.
Wilhelmus Simon Petrus Fortuijn, known as Pim Fortuyn (; 19 February 1948 – 6 May 2002 ), was a Dutch politician, civil servant, sociologist, author and professor who formed his own party, Pim Fortuyn List ( Lijst Pim Fortuyn or LPF ) in 2002.
Fortuyn was openly homosexual.
Fortuyn was assassinated during the 2002 Dutch national election campaign by Volkert van der Graaf.
Fortuyn was born on 19 February 1948 in Driehuis, as the third child to a Catholic family.
Fortuyn was openly gay, and said in a 2002 interview that he was Catholic.
In 1992 Fortuyn wrote " Aan het volk van Nederland " ( To the people of the Netherlands ), declaring he was the successor to the charismatic but controversial 18th-century Dutch politician Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol.
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.
On 6 May 2002, at age 54, Fortuyn was assassinated in Hilversum, North Holland, by Volkert van der Graaf.
Fortuyn was initially buried in Driehuis in the Netherlands.
In August 2001, Fortuyn was quoted in the Rotterdams Dagblad newspaper saying, " I am also in favour of a cold war with Islam.
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.
During the 2002 campaign, Fortuyn was accused of being on the " extreme right ", although others saw only certain similarities.
On the contrary, Fortuyn wanted to protect the socio-culturally liberal values of the Netherlands, women's rights and sexual minorities ( he was openly homosexual himself ), from the " backward " Islamic culture.
Contemporary Dutch politics is more polarized than it has been in recent years, especially on the issues for which Fortuyn was best known.
In 2004, in a TV show, Fortuyn was chosen as De Grootste Nederlander (" Greatest Dutchman of all-time "), followed closely by William of Orange, the leader of the independence war that established the precursor to the present-day Netherlands.
Parking lot in Hilversum where Fortuyn was assassinated
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.
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While Fortuyn compared his own politics to centre-right politicians such as Silvio Berlusconi of Italy, he also admired former Dutch Prime Minister Joop den Uyl, a social democrat, and Democratic U. S. president John F. Kennedy.
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.
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Fortuyn provoked controversy with his stated views about multiculturalism, immigration and Islam in the Netherlands.
After his use of " achterlijk " caused an uproar, Fortuyn said he had used the word with its literal meaning of " backward ".
On 5 May, the day before the assassination, Fortuyn debated with Melkert in a debate organized by the Algemeen Dagblad newspaper about demonization of himself.
An anonymous informant claimed that Fortuyn had engaged in sex with Moroccan youths aged between 16 and 21 ; this was legal under Dutch law.
He has been a center of controversy for his views on homosexuality, which brought him into open conflict with the Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn.
The VVD nonetheless entered a cabinet with the CDA and the Pim Fortuyn List ( LPF ).
Opinion polls soon showed that he took most of LN's supporters with him, leaving LN with its original 2 %, while Fortuyn soared to 17 %.
" The murder of Fortuyn, together with that of Theo van Gogh two years later, would result in a polarisation in the political debate in the Netherlands, and subsequently radical changes in immigration-related policies and public discourse.
LPF election poster featuring Pim Fortuyn with his slogan " At your service!
On 25 September 2006, the party released its campaign commercial, which featured new leader Olaf Stuger coming down from " heaven " with a parachute and presenting himself as a " reincarnation " of Pim Fortuyn.
Among other things, the documents accuse Pim Fortuyn of having sex with under age Moroccan boys.
Another coalition with Pim Fortuyn List would be likely to be unpopular with voters after the events of the first Balkenende cabinet, and D66 was unwilling to join such a coalition.
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 ).
In February 2006, he participated with several other specialists at the Pim Fortuyn Memorial Conference on Islam in The Hague ( 17-19 February 2006 ).
Anti-Pim Fortuyn | Fortuyn poster of the International Socialists with the slogan " Stop de Hollandse Haider " ( English: " Stop the Dutch Haider ") near the house of Pim Fortuyn in Rotterdam on 6 May 2002
In late summer of 1613, the Tyger had moored in Lower Manhattan on the Hudson to trade with the Lenape Indians along with its partner Hendrick Christiaensen's Fortuyn.
Nonetheless, with a new political climate following the September 11 attacks and the rise of Pim Fortuyn, Janmaat sought political rehabilitation in his final years.
This success is in part owed to its new leader Jan Peter Balkenende, who went on to become prime minister, and to its neutral attitude in the debate with Fortuyn, not having participated in the supposed ‘ demonization ’ by the political Left.
Fortuyn and politicians
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In the declining economic climate of the early 21st century the model came under fierce attack from particularly right-wing politicians and Pim Fortuyn with his self promotional book entitled " De puinhopen van 8 jaar paars " (" The wreckage of eight years of purple ").
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