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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.
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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.
Fortuyn was compared with the politicians Jörg Haider and Jean-Marie Le Pen in the foreign press.
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.
Fortuyn and party
Having been rejected by Livable Netherlands, Fortuyn founded his own party LPF ( Pim Fortuyn List ) on 11 February 2002.
Fortuyn and several other members of his party had been the subject of an investigation by the intelligence services.
A huge party erupted in and outside De Kuip not only because of the title, but also because the final was held several days, after Rotterdam's political hero Pim Fortuyn was murdered.
The Pim Fortuyn List (, LPF ) was a political party in the Netherlands.
The eponymous founder of the party was Pim Fortuyn, a charismatic former university professor and political columnist who initially had planned to contest the 2002 general election as leader of the Livable Netherlands ( LN ) party.
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.
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.
Pim Fortuyn began his political career in the party.
Fortuyn subsequently organized his own party, the Lijst Pim Fortuyn.
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.
* Pim Fortuyn List, Dutch political party
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.
* Pim Fortuyn, the assassinated party leader of the LPF studied sociology at the VU.
Leefbaar Rotterdam started as a spin-off of the national party Leefbaar Nederland but is commonly seen as the local party of the LPF ( Lijst Pim Fortuyn ), the national party of Pim Fortuyn which was founded just after Pim Fortuyn was fired as lijsttrekker of the Leefbaar Nederland party in spring 2002.
Fortuyn and leader
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.
" Almost immediately after Fortuyn became leader, LN went from 2 % in opinion polls to about 17 %.
Vocal critics included Pim Fortuyn, the assassinated leader of his own right-wing party.
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.
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.
For the Dutch general election of 2002 he was the lijsttrekker, Dijkstal and Ad Melkert the leader of the Labour Party ( PvdA ) 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.
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