New National Party (Netherlands)

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New National Party
Nieuwe Nationale Partij
Chairman Egbert Perée
Henk Ruitenberg
Florens van der Kooi
Founded1998 [1]
Dissolved2005 [2]
Split from Centre Party '86
Headquarters The Hague, Netherlands
NewspaperBarricade (magazine, 1999 [3] –2005 [4] )
Youth wing Nieuwe Nationale Jongeren
(New National Youth)
Membership200 (2000) [1]
Ideology Nationalism
Political position Far-right
Colours Red, White, Blue and Orange
Website
www.nnp.nu
(defunct)

The New National Party (Dutch : Nieuwe Nationale Partij, abbr. NNP) was a Dutch nationalist political party which existed between 1998 and 2005. It succeeded the Volksnationalisten Nederland (abbr. VNN, People's Nationalists Netherlands) party which had been founded in 1997. The NNP was originally named Nationale Partij Nederland (abbr. NPN, National Party Netherlands) but because another party had used a similar name earlier the name was rejected by the Electoral Council (Dutch: Kiesraad).

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Original logo of the NNP Nieuwe-Nationale-Partij-logo.gif
Original logo of the NNP
Florens van der Kooi, the last chairman of the NNP, during an NNP demonstration in Dordrecht in 2004 Florensdordrecht.png
Florens van der Kooi, the last chairman of the NNP, during an NNP demonstration in Dordrecht in 2004

History

The party, which succeeded the VNN and NPN, was first led by Egbert Perée, then by Henk Ruitenberg (ex-CP'86) and after him Florens van der Kooi. The party was considered to be successor [1] [5] of the Centre Party '86 (CP'86), which was banned by a Dutch court in 1998 as a "criminal organization". [6]

The NNP was accused of racial hatred [7] but never charged or convicted under the criminal code. [5] The party claimed to stand for "protecting Dutch culture, language, sovereignty and identity for the further honour and glory and eternal existence of the entire Dutch tribe and nation". The party preferred remigration over integration and stood for whole-Netherlandism. [1]

The NNP worked with New Right in the Actiecomité Stop MARTIJN which campaigned against the pedophiles of the Vereniging Martijn in 2003.

The driving forces behind the party in its early years were Marcel Hoogstra and Marc de Boer. The party mainly had members in North Brabant and Zeeland. [1] In North Holland the regional wing of the party consisted of Wim Beaux (later chairman of the Nationalist People's Movement), Ton Steemers and Peter van Egmond and the regional wing of Zeeland was led by Wijnand de Putter. [2]

Other board members included Hendrik Sybrandy and Gerard de Wit. [2]

Magazine

The party's magazine was called Barricade, which was published between 1999 [3] and 2005. [2] It was edited amongst others by Alex Neid [8] and Martijn Janssen. [2] [4]

Youth wing

The youth wing of the party, the Nieuwe Nationale Jongeren was formed in 2002 and first led by Alex Neid [8] and since 2003 by Geoffrey Robbemond, who also became secretary of the NNP, succeeding Paul Peters. [2]

Later developments

The party was dissolved in 2005 after many members left the party for newer parties, such as the conservative rightist New Right party and the largely national socialist National Alliance party. [2]

Several former NNP members later became active for Voorpost, including Van der Kooi.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 (in Dutch) De Partijen; Een overzicht van de belangrijkste extreem-rechtse partijen in Nederland en hun geschiedenis, NRC Handelsblad, 8 June 2000
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (in Dutch) NNP verdwenen, Kleintje Muurkrant (archive)
  3. 1 2 (in Dutch) Links Leiden onder de loep van extreem-rechts, De Fabel van de illegaal 33, February/March 1999 (archive)
  4. 1 2 (in Dutch) Wat schrijft rechts?, Gerrit de Wit, Alert!, Nr. 1 March 2005 (archive)
  5. 1 2 (in Dutch) Geen onderzoek naar Nieuwe Nationale Partij, Trouw, 1 September 2000
  6. ↑ (in Dutch) Rechtbank verbiedt CP'86/Bestuurslid Freling blij met duidelijkheid over eventuele volgende partij, Trouw, 19 November 1998
  7. ↑ (in Dutch) Extreem rechtse NNP van rassenhaat beticht, Algemeen Dagblad, 10 August 2000
  8. 1 2 (in Dutch) Nieuwe Nationale Jongeren, anti-fascist research group Kafka, 1 November 2002
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