Hero Brinkman (born 29 December 1964, 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, ...

) is a

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and former

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politician. He was a

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from 30 November 2006 to 19 September 2012, after being elected as the number four on the electoral list for the

Party for Freedom The Party for Freedom ( nl, Partij voor de Vrijheid, PVV) is a nationalist, right-wing populist political party in the Netherlands. Founded in 2006 as the successor to Geert Wilders' one-man faction in the House of Representatives, it won nine ...

(Partij voor de Vrijheid - PVV). As the number eleven on the list, he was re-elected in June 2010. As an MP for the PVV, Brinkman focused on

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control,

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, and

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. Brinkman repeatedly criticised the lack of democracy within the PVV. For this reason, as well as the PVV's negative generalisations about certain groups in society, Brinkman quit the PVV on 20 March 2012. As a consequence, the PVV's support for the minority

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was therefore no longer sufficient to provide it with a

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, although Brinkman indicated that he intended to continue to support the

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. Brinkman was also a member of the

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for the PVV since 10 March 2011. On 22 March 2012, he announced that he would also leave the PVV in North Holland. From 1985 to 2006, Brinkman worked in the Dutch police force of

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. As a police officer in the capital city, he was among others involved in

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.Krakers gooien vuurwerk naar politieagenten en in winkels - Kamervragen
PVV website, April 2008 Brinkman and

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of the

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alternately write a weekly

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for the free newspaper ''

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'' under the title 'Haagse Herrie' ('fuss in

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') in which they engage in a critical debate.

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Parlement.com biography
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