List Pim Fortuyn

Lijst Pim Fortuyn (List Pim Fortuyn) is a political party in the Netherlands.

Elections 2003 and internal disagreement

A political poll held the day before the cabinet fell, showed that popular support for the LPF had vanished. If new elections would be held, the LPF would lose 23 of its original 26 seats in parliament.

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Mat Herben, back in office of parliamentary party leaders for one day when the cabinet fell, argued on television that the LPF should choose Heinsbroek as political leader to lead the party toward the new elections that by law had to be held within 83 days, only to learn the next day that Heinsbroek publicly stated he was considering starting his own party - later registered as Lijst Nieuwe Politiek. Winnie de Jong

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also established her own party: Conservatieven.nl.

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Two days after the fall of the cabinet Harry Wijnschenk, who had clearly been unable to lead the party and had unanimously been asked to resign and hand back the position to his predecessor Mat Herben, decided to leave the LPF and continue as a one man parliamentary faction.

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Mat Herben led the party to the elections of January 22 2003. During the campaign, the party recovered slightly from a low point in the polls of only two seats, and ended up with 8 seats. By 2005 however, polls showed a further drop to just one seat.

Related Topics:
January 22 - 2003

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In August 2004, the eight Members of Parliament for the LPF separated themselves from the rest of the party, and continued on their own. They wanted to keep LPF as their party's name, but obviously the "other" LPF refused to share their name. The chaos continued when in 2005, member of parliament Hilbrand Nawijn started another controversy because of his association with Filip Dewinter, leader of the Belgian far-right Vlaams Belang. This led to his separation of the fraction, forming his own one man party Groep Nawijn.

Related Topics:
2004 - Member of parliament - Hilbrand Nawijn - Filip Dewinter - Vlaams Belang - Groep Nawijn

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