Michiel Smit | |
|---|---|
 Michiel Smit (2003) | |
| Municipal Councillor in Rotterdam | |
| In office 2002–2006 | |
| Municipal Councillor in Lansingerland | |
| In office 2006–2007 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Michiel Jorg Smit 21 August 1976 Maasland,Netherlands |
| Political party | Nieuw Rechts,Leefbaar Rotterdam |
Michiel Smit (born 21 August 1976) is a former Dutch politician who was leader of Nieuw Rechts,a far-right political party.
Michiel Smit was elected to the Rotterdam city council in 2002 as a member of Leefbaar Rotterdam. In February 2003,he came into conflict with Leefbaar-Rotterdam leader Ronald Sørensen and decided to leave the party. After leaving,he founded a new party:Nieuw Rechts.
He released his first book Nederland op z'n kop in June 2004,just before the European elections. In the book he outlines his views on Dutch society and describes what he sees as the threat of Muslim extremists in the Netherlands.
In his latest book,Veiligheid,doe het ZELF,Smit says that handguns should be legalised in the Netherlands and that doing so will lead to less violent crime.
Smit has made statements against immigration and Islam. In 2003 Smit started to cooperate with the Jewish Defense League,citing the danger to both from the Arab European League. [1] In the same year he demonstrated in Amsterdam against the pedophile association Vereniging MARTIJN as a leader of the ActiecomitéStop MARTIJN.
In 2004,photos of Smit hanging out with white power skinhead friends started circulating on the internet. [2] The following year,he lost a libel case that he started against a talk show guest who had called him a neo-Nazi in 2002. The judge ruled that Smit had given ample reason for the qualification. [3]
Hilversum is a city and municipality in the province of North Holland,Netherlands. Located in the heart of the Gooi,it is the largest urban centre in that area. It is surrounded by heathland,woods,meadows,lakes and smaller towns. Hilversum is part of the Randstad,one of the largest conurbations in Europe,and the Amsterdam metropolitan area;it is about 22 km southeast of Amsterdam's city centre and about 15 km north of Utrecht.
Wilhelmus Simon Petrus Fortuijn,known as Pim Fortuyn,was a Dutch politician,author,civil servant,businessman,sociologist and academic who founded the party Pim Fortuyn List in 2002.
Livable Netherlands was a Dutch political party. Pim Fortuyn began his political career in the party.
Vereniging Martijn was a Dutch association that advocated the societal acceptance of pedophilia and legalization of sexual relationships between adults and children.
Livable Rotterdam is a local political party in the municipality of Rotterdam in the Netherlands,which was founded by Ronald Sørensen in 2001.
New Right was a nationalist Dutch political party,founded by Michiel Smit in February 2003 and dissolved in December 2007.
Femke Halsema is a Dutch politician and filmmaker. On 27 June 2018,she was appointed Mayor of Amsterdam and began serving a six-year term on 12 July 2018. She is the first woman to hold the position on a non-interim basis. She previously was a member of the House of Representatives for the leftist green party GroenLinks from 1998 to 2011,and served as the party's parliamentary leader from 2002 to 2010.
Maria Cornelia Frederika "Rita" Verdonk is a Dutch politician and businesswoman formerly affiliated with the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and later Proud of the Netherlands (TON),which she founded in 2007. Since 2022,she has been a municipal councillor of The Hague,elected on the list led by Richard de Mos.
Johan Georg "Jan" Nagel is a Dutch politician who was a member of the Labour Party,and later formed his own parties. He is currently in the Pensioners' Party 50PLUS.
The National Alliance was a Dutch ultranationalist political party. It was disbanded in 2007.
Eén NL is a Dutch political party founded in September 2006. It took part in the 2006 Dutch election under the leadership of Marco Pastors and Joost Eerdmans,but a dismal election result leaves the political future of the party quite uncertain. The party is seen as one of the political heirs of the late Pim Fortuyn.
Marianne Louise Thieme is a Dutch politician,author and animal rights activist. A jurist and theologian by education,she served as the Party for the Animals' political leader from 2002 to 2019 and a member of the House of Representatives from 2006 to 2019.
The New National Party was a Dutch nationalist political party which existed between 1998 and 2005. It succeeded the Volksnationalisten Nederland party which had been founded in 1997. The NNP was originally named Nationale Partij Nederland but because another party had used a similar name earlier the name was rejected by the Electoral Council.
De puinhopen van acht jaar Paars is a political non-fiction book released by the Dutch political commentator and aspiring lawmaker Pim Fortuyn in 2002,two months prior to his assassination. In the book,Fortuyn sharply criticizes the then ruling "Purple" coalition government and its direct predecessor on nearly all areas of their policies.
DENK is a political party in the Netherlands,founded on a minority rights platform. It is legally registered as "Politieke Beweging Denk".
Redbad is a 2018 Dutch drama film directed by Roel Reiné. It is based on the life of Radbod,an early medieval Frisian leader. The film was intended as the middle part of a trilogy about iconic Dutch/Frisian heroes,starting with the film Michiel de Ruyter,about the 17th century admiral Michiel de Ruyter and ending with an unmade film about William of Orange.
J.H. "Henk" de Vree is a Dutch politician,who served as a temporary member of the House of Representatives between December 2020 and March 2021. There,he represented the right-wing populist Party for Freedom (PVV).
JA21 is a political party in the Netherlands,active in the House of Representatives and Senate. It was founded on 18 December 2020 by Joost Eerdmans and Annabel Nanninga after they left the Forum for Democracy (FVD) on 26 November 2020. The party,affiliated with conservative liberalism,first participated in elections in the 15–17 March 2021 general election.
Paul Alex Blaauw,usually known as P. A. Blaauw,was an Indo politician,lawyer,and member of the Dutch East Indies Volksraad representing the Indo Europeesch Verbond from the 1920s to the 1940s. During the period of transition to Indonesian independence and the 1949 Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference he was a leader of the largest faction advocating for the rights of Indos.
De Allergrootste Slijmfilm is a 2022 Dutch adventure film directed by Martijn Smits. The film won the Golden Film award after having sold 100,000 tickets. It was the fifth best visited Dutch film of 2022 with just over 215,000 visitors. The film is the sequel to the 2021 film De Nog Grotere Slijmfilm,which is also directed by Martijn Smits.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
