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Beschrijving

Pim Fortuyn Wilhelmus Simon Petrus Fortuijn, known as Pim Fortuyn 19 February 1948 – 6 May 2002), was a Dutch politician, civil servant, sociologist, author and professor who formed his own party, Pim Fortuyn List (Lijst Pim Fortuyn or LPF) in 2002.^[1]

Pim Fortuyn provoked controversy with his outspoken views about multiculturalism, immigration and Islam in the Netherlands. He called Islam “a backward culture”, and was quoted as saying that if it were legally possible, he would close the borders for Muslim immigrants.^[2] He was labelled a far-right populist by his opponents and in the media, but he fiercely rejected this label.^[3] Fortuyn was openly homosexual.

Pim Fortuyn explicitly distanced himself from “far-right” politicians such as the Belgian Filip Dewinter, the Austrian Jörg Haider, or Frenchman Jean-Marie Le Pen whenever compared to them. While he compared his own politics to centre-right politicians such as Silvio Berlusconi of Italy, he also admired former Dutch Prime Minister Joop den Uyl, a social democrat, and Democratic U.S. president John F. Kennedy. Fortuyn also criticised the Polder model and the policies of the outgoing government of Wim Kok and repeatedly described himself and LPF’s ideology as pragmatic and not populistic.^[4]

Pim Fortuyn was assassinated during the 2002 Dutch national election campaign^[5][6][7] by Volkert van der Graaf. In court at his trial, van der Graaf said he murdered Fortuyn to stop him from exploiting Muslims as “scapegoats” and targeting “the weak members of society” in seeking political power.^{[8][9][10]Fortuyn was born on 19 February 1948 in Driehuis, as the third child to a Catholic family. In 1967 he began to study sociology at the University of Amsterdam but transferred after a few months to the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. In 1971 he ended his study with the Academic degreeDoctorandus. In 1981 he received a doctorate in sociology at the …Pim Fortuyn Bron Wikipedia}