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The Dutch Block ( nl, Nederlands Blok, NB) was a
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espousing an
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program. It was founded by Alfred Vierling, Ton Steemers en Hans Lindenburg, modeled on the Flemish Block and later taken over by Wim Vreeswijk, who became council member in Utrecht. The party was founded in 1992. It had a seat in the municipal council of
Utrecht Utrecht ( , , ) is the fourth-largest city and a municipality of the Netherlands, capital and most populous city of the province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, in the very centre of mainland Net ...
from 1994 to 2000, where Wim Vreeswijk was elected. From 1994 to 1997 it also had a seat in
Almelo Almelo () is a municipality and a city in the eastern Netherlands. The main population centres in the town are Aadorp, Almelo, Mariaparochie, and Bornerbroek. Almelo has about 72,000 inhabitants in the middle of the rolling countryside of Twente, ...
. The elected councillor there, Henry Oudendijk, was originally a member of Centrum Democraten, but changed parties after two months; in March 1997 he left Nederlands Blok and continued as an independent member.


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* Anti-fascist research group Kafka documentation on th
Dutch Blok
{{Historical Dutch political parties Defunct nationalist parties in the Netherlands Far-right politics in the Netherlands Political parties established in 1992 Political parties disestablished in 2000 History of Utrecht (city) Almelo