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.
The People's Party for Freedom and Democracy is a conservative-liberal political party in the Netherlands. The VVD,whose forerunner was the Freedom Party,is a party of the centre-right,which promotes private enterprise and economic liberalism.
The Pim Fortuyn List was a right-wing populist political party in the Netherlands named after its eponymous founder Pim Fortuyn,a former university professor and political columnist. The party was considered nationalist as well as adhering to its own distinct ideology of Fortuynism according to some commentators.
General elections were held in the Netherlands on 15 May 2002. The elections were amongst the most dramatic in Dutch history,not just in terms of the electoral results,as they were completely overshadowed by the assassination of leader Pim Fortuyn only nine days before election day.
Adrianus Petrus Wilhelmus "Ad" Melkert is a Dutch politician and diplomat of the Labour Party (PvdA) who has served as a Member of the Council of State since 20 January 2016.
Hilbrand Pier Anne Nawijn is a Dutch lawyer and politician of the local political party Lijst Hilbrand Nawijn (LHN) in Zoetermeer.
Mathieu "Mat" Herben is a Dutch journalist,civil servant and retired politician of the dissolved Pim Fortuyn List (LPF) party and served as leader of the LPF 2003 to 2006.
The Nawijn Group is a Dutch right-wing Fortuynist political faction founded by Hilbrand Nawijn,a member of the Dutch House of Representatives. It was founded in June 2005 when Nawijn split from his previous party Pim Fortuyn List (LPF). It remained a one-man faction in the parliament until August 2006 when LPF parliamentary chairman Gerard van As joined Nawijn after also abandoning the LPF. Nawijn also participated in the Zoetermeer 2006 city council elections and won five seats under the name Lijst Hilbrand Nawijn,but like Leefbaar Rotterdam and the Pim Fortuyn List both led by Pim Fortuyn in the 2002 elections,these are separate entities. In August 2006 Nawijn announced that he planned to participate in the 2006 Dutch general elections under the banner of the Party for the Netherlands.
Bernard Johannes "Joost" Eerdmans is a Dutch politician,broadcaster and former civil servant who has served as Leader of JA21 since 18 December 2020,a party he co-founded with Annabel Nanninga. Elected to the House of Representatives in the 2021 general election,he took office on 31 March 2021. Eerdmans had previously served as a member of the House of Representatives from 23 May 2002 until 30 November 2006 for the Pim Fortuyn List (LPF) and as an Independent.
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.
Libertarian,Direct,Democratic is a conservative-liberal,libertarian,right-wing populist Flemish political party in Belgium.
Barry Madlener is a Dutch politician serving as a member of the House of Representatives since 2012. A member of the Party for Freedom (PVV),he was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2006. Madlener became the PVV's leader in the European Parliament following the 2009 election,an office he resigned from upon his reelection to the House of Representatives in 2012.
Elisabeth Cornelia Alphonsa Maria (Elise) Boot is a Dutch jurist and former politician.
Hartog Hank Richard "Harry" Wijnschenk is a former Dutch politician. From 2002 to 2003 he was an MP for the Pim Fortuyn List (LPF),and later for the Wijnschenk Group. He briefly served as leader of the LPF in 2002.
Pim Fortuyn,a Dutch politician,was assassinated by Volkert van der Graaf in Hilversum,North Holland on 6 May 2002,nine days before the general election of 2002,in which he was leading the Pim Fortuyn List (LPF).
Irena Arkesteijn-Pantelic is a model from the Netherlands. She was Miss Nederland in 2001. She represented the Netherlands at the Miss World pageant in Sun City,South Africa. Pantelic was born in Rotterdam,her parents are immigrants from former Yugoslavia. She was raised in Capelle aan den IJssel and attended the Nationale Hogeschool voor Toerisme en Verkeer in Breda.
James "Jim" Leonard Janssen van Raay was a Dutch lawyer and politician.
The Henk Krol List is a political party in the Netherlands named after its founder and leader Henk Krol,who had previously led both 50PLUS (50+) and the Party for the Future (PvdT). It had a seat in the House of Representatives as the Member Krol. The party participated in the 2021 Dutch general election on 17 March 2021,but did not win any seats.
Windeld (Wien) van den Brink was a Dutch politician,farmer and union leader. From 2002 to 2006,he was a member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands for the Lijst Pim Fortuyn.
AndréPeperkoorn is a Dutch military general,counter-terrorism official and former politician.
