Word: fortuyn
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...seats in parliament. But at the weekend, in the last major poll before the Jan. 22 election, Labor was in second place, four seats behind the Christian Democrats, who led the outgoing Dutch administration that was brought down after just 88 days in office by infighting within List Pim Fortuyn (lpf), one of the three coalition parties. lpf, of course, was catapulted to power by its charismatic leader, the maverick right-winger Pim Fortuyn, who was assassinated just days before the 2002 election. After Pim, the party fell asunder - and now Bos is emerging as his true heir. Dutch political...
...NETHERLANDS Fortuyn Lives The ghost of murdered conservative leader Pim Fortuyn looms large over the run-up to the Netherlands' Jan. 21 general election. In campaigning, many centrist politicians have adopted his controversial positions on issues like immigration, crime and education. Freedom and Democracy Party leader Gerrit Zalm has embraced the notion that the country can no longer take in immigrants: "The Netherlands is full," he now says in his speeches. Social Democrat leader Wouter Bos is doing a more effective Fortuyn impersonation - "Only Dutch to be taught in our schools" - and is leading in the polls. Ironically, Fortuyn...
...admits that day is a long way off. - By STEVE ZWICK/Duisberg THE CRITIC Ayaan Hirsi Ali, 33, the Netherlands Islam is "an extremely backward religion," according to an important new voice on the Dutch political scene. These words clearly echo those of slain right-wing leader Pim Fortuyn, who also used the word backward in reference to Islam. But the speaker today is Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali refugee and former Muslim who's a sure bet to become an M.P. for the liberal VVD party in January's elections. "Millions of Muslim women all over the world are oppressed...
...practices she unapologetically labeled “backward.” Alis is not affiliated with a right-wing party and the Dutch are famously tolerant people who put up with everything. Neither Alis nor her country fit the usual profile of claustrophobic bigots. The better-known politician Pim Fortuyn built an entire movement out of assaulting the medieval attitudes about gays and women held by some immigrant Muslims...
...recent norms of chaos and calumny. Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende informed the Queen that the government he put together 87 days ago had reached a dead end. The reason: a bitter leadership feud between Economics Minister Herman Heinsbroek and Health Minister Eduard Bomhoff, both members of List Pim Fortuyn (LPF). When Balkenende, a Christian Democrat, failed to reconcile them, it was obvious that this cabinet was not going to survive. "The LPF is brilliant at carrying wood to its own funeral pyre," says the hapless Mat Herben, a former party leader who now takes up the post again. "Sometimes...