Party for the Netherlands

The Partij voor Nederland ( PvN, Party for the Netherlands) is a Dutch party.

History

The party was founded in 2006 by Hilbrand Nawijn that for Lijst Pim Fortuyn (LPF ) was in the Cabinet Balkenende I was Minister for Integration, however, had left his party in 2005 and then remained as a fraction Loser in the Dutch lower house. The former LPF Group President Gerard van As joined briefly to the new party, however, was already known in September 2006, having left the party again. Nawijn van As had intended to confer no Front Rank, while van As expressed in connection with his departure, having previously announced Nawijn that he had never sought a list place. Furthermore, van As had also difficulties with the cooperation of the PvN with the often referred to as xenophobic Vlaams Belang, a Flemish party.

One goal of PvN was a merger with other small parties, this was followed at the federal level with ONS Nederland, Nederland Transparant and Nederland Mobiel. The Chairman of ONS Nederland, Berthoo Lammers, was awarded second place list. In the parliamentary elections of 2006, however, the party was unsuccessful, with 5,010 votes ( 0.1 %) of the catchment was clearly missed in the Dutch lower house. Since the general election was on the PvN hardly anything to be heard in the provincial elections of 2007, they no longer came on. The website received no more updates and was finally taken off the grid in 2008.

Party program

The PvN was clearly recognizable as heir to the LPF particularly in the integration policy. In addition to an increased pressure to integrate the party expressed the freeze on the building of other mosques also for the abolition of a separate Islamic teaching as well. While the party advocated a systematic deportation of criminal aliens, she was in turn for equality between allochthonous and autochthonous.

The number of officials should be lowered according to the will of PvN and the bureaucracy are suppressed. The party called for further tax cuts and free public transport. The PvN one of the parties advocating a social service obligation (since 1997 is exposed in the Netherlands military service for peacetime, so the same is true for the civil service, substitute ).

In criminal matters was the PvN against an early release and parole in preventive detention. In health policy, the party called for the abolition of separate nursing homes and their integration into nursing homes.