Hero Brinkman
Hero Brinkman ( December 29, 1964 in Almelo ) is a Dutch politician. He was a member from 2006 to 2012 the Dutch Parliament (Second Chamber of the States General ) to. By March 2012, he was a member of the right-wing populist faction Partij voor de Vrijheid (PVV ).
His exit he founded with the oversized role of Geert Wilders in the PVV and thoughtful little actions like the PVV - reporting center for problems with Central and Eastern Europeans. Then he made alone as eyelid Brinkman ( Chamber Member Brinkman ) a one-man faction.
Policy
Brinkman was before his election to the Chamber of police inspector in a district of Amsterdam. He is against dual citizenship, squatting and tolerance to drugs. Young criminals he wants to introduce in -education camp. In 2007, he called the Netherlands Antilles " a corrupt crooks Nest".
His party, the Partij voor de Vrijheid, is the only member of the party founder Geert Wilders. Brinkman has unsuccessfully called for a democratization of the party, and wished for the establishment of a youth organization.
On 17 December 2010 it was announced that the Brinkman PVV leading candidate for the province of North Holland was in the elections to the provincial assemblies in March 2011. He announced to remain in the case of an election in the Second Chamber, which he did. Even after his resignation from the PVV faction in the national parliament, he has remained in the fraction in North Holland.
Scandals
In September 2009 there was a skirmish between Brinkman and a bartender at the press center of the Parliament ( Nieuwspoort ). Brinkman was subsequently publicly, to have a drinking problem.
In a survey conducted by RTL Nieuws in November 2010 Brinkman was the only one of 150 members of the Second Chamber, which did not respond to the question whether he has ever been convicted in court. Brinkman admitted then that he tried in 2001 to avoid alcohol control. To this end, he turned off the lights of his car and drove away quickly. He was later arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol. With the judiciary, he met an agreement in which he 200, - Euros paid. The press has these and similar scandals of PVV MPs followed with great interest, because the alliance of VVD, CDA and PVV has only one vote majority in Parliament.
Exit from the PVV fraction and new party
On March 20, 2012 Brinkman gave a press conference on his departure from the group in the National Parliament ( Second Chamber ) are known. The reason irreconcilable differences with party leader Geert Wilders were called, also had criticism of the Brinkman operated by the PVV website Meldpunt Midden -en Oosteuropeanen, where you can submit complaints about Central and East Europeans in February expressed. By Frank ion leakage of the Brinkman tolerated by the PVV coalition government headed by Prime Minister Mark Rutte lost their narrow majority in the Second Chamber.
The end of June Brinkman confirmed to a newspaper that the PVV had received much money from America. In one particular case there had been a case with 75,000 euros, told from the Wilders him. Brinkman find the poor because he was sitting in the Netherlands and not for foreign countries in the chamber.
In June Brinkman made known that he once again wanted to run for the board for a new party. This party was officially registered on 18 June and is called Democratisch Politiek Keerpunt ( DPK, about: Democratic political change ). This is a fusion of Brinkman's short-lived Onafhankelijke Burger with Trots op Nederland Partij, which had been founded by Rita Verdonk. The new party is represented mainly the middle class and stand up for a common currency of the rich, Western European EU members. The PVV is economically drifted too far to the left. In the elections to the Second Chamber in September 2012 DPK got to the top candidates Brinkman only 0.1 % of the votes and could not obtain a mandate.