The Nawijn Group () is a

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Fortuynist

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founded by

Hilbrand Nawijn Hilbrand Pier Anne Nawijn (born 8 August 1948) is a Dutch lawyer and politician of the local political party Lijst Hilbrand Nawijn (LHN) in Zoetermeer. From 2002 to 2004, he served as a Member of the House of Representatives for the Pim Fortuyn ...

, a member of the Dutch

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. It was founded in June 2005 when Nawijn split from his previous party

Pim Fortuyn List The Pim Fortuyn List (, LPF) was a political party in the Netherlands that existed from 2002 to 2008 at a national level and was named after its eponymous founder Pim Fortuyn, a former university professor and political columnist. The party was ...

(LPF). It remained a one-man faction in the parliament until August 2006 when LPF

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Gerard van As joined Nawijn after also abandoning the LPF. Nawijn also participated in the

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2006 city council elections and won five seats under the name ''Lijst Hilbrand Nawijn'', but like Leefbaar Rotterdam and the

both led by Pim Fortuyn in the 2002 elections, these are separate entities. In August 2006 Nawijn announced that he planned to participate in the

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s under the banner of the Party for the Netherlands (''Partij voor Nederland'').

External links

Van As Steps From LPF to Group Nawijn
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Nawijn Comes with' Party for Netherlands'
(Dutch) {{Defunct political parties in the Netherlands Defunct nationalist parties in the Netherlands Conservative parties in the Netherlands Right-wing populism in the Netherlands