Centre Party (Netherlands)

Centrumpartij called himself a nationalist, right-wing populist Dutch party that existed from 1980 to 1986. From 1982 to 1984 she was represented in the Dutch Parliament, to their only parliamentarian Hans Janmaat, was expelled from the party. He then founded the Center Democraten which he represented in Parliament after the elections of 1986. The Centrumpartij was meaningless and 1986, superseded by the Centrumpartij 86.

History

Founder of Centrumpartij on March 11, 1980, primarily Henry Brookman, professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She joined a program of social justice and environmental protection with a sharp rejection of immigration. Brookman held the founding of a new party to be necessary, after members of his former party, the National Center Partij, had assaulted in February 1980 Moroccans. Brookman was only until 1981 Chairman, but the party remained as a consultant until 1985.

The party arrived in 1982 not only in the chamber, but also in some community councils. In 1984, she narrowly failed in the European elections. Internal stresses brought brought the end of the party, as did Nico Kronst a more militant course. On May 12, 1984, he was instead of Janmaat party chairman. In October Janmaat was expelled from the party, many members followed him. On 13 May 1986, the party was declared bankrupt after neither she Janmaats new party were still enters the chamber.

On May 20, 1986, a radical nationalist Centrumpartij 86 founded as a successor party. She put on quite radical youth and was classified in 1998 by the Dutch Hoge Raad as a criminal organization that operates sedition. The party was dissolved, but continued by the Nieuwe Nationale Partij of 3 July 1998. A bekanntenes member was Alfred Vierling.