New Right (Netherlands)
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Nieuw Rechts (New Right) is a nationalist Dutch political party, founded by Michiel Smit in 2003.
[edit] History
Michiel Smit was secretary of Pim Fortuyn's local Leefbaar Rotterdam party. He was elected into the Rotterdam city council in March 2002. After the assassination of Fortuyn, May 6, 2002, the Leefbaar Rotterdam leadership was handed over to Ronald Sörensen. Michiel Smit was forced out of the Leefbaar Rotterdam party though in February 2006, after it became public that Smit participated on various neo-Nazi internet fora and operating the site www.arabischeuropeseliga.nl.[citation needed] Sörensen earlier forbade Smit from visiting the Belgian Vlaams Blok as representative of Leefbaar Rotterdam.[citation needed]
However, Smit held on to his seat in the Rotterdam city council, forming a one person party called Nieuw Rechts. From this position Smit started to build up the Nieuw Rechts party. He tried to set up local branches all over the Netherlands, but this has failed, except in Rotterdam.[citation needed] In the first electoral campaign, in 2004 European Elections the party attracted 0.3% of the votes, and no seats. In the Dutch municipal elections of 2006 New Right fielded candidates in Rotterdam, Ridderkerk, Almelo and Eindhoven, obtaining 0.06% of the total vote and one seat in the council of Ridderkerk.
[edit] Ideology
New Right's ideology is based on conservatism, liberalism and nationalism.[citation needed]
The most important issue for the New Right is immigration and integration of Muslims. Smit holds controversial views like forced repatriation of criminal foreigners and mandatory Dutch services in mosques.
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