Eén NL (One NL) is a Dutch
political party
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founded in September 2006. It took part in the
2006 Dutch election under the leadership of
Marco Pastors
Marcus Gerhardus Theodorus (Marco) Pastors (born 10 September 1965) is a Dutch civil servant and former politician. Since 1 February 2012 he has been director of the Nationaal Programma Kwaliteitssprong Zuid, a project of the city of Rotterdam ...
and
Joost Eerdmans
Bernard Johannes "Joost" Eerdmans (born 9 January 1971) is a Dutch politician, broadcaster and former civil servant who has served as Leader of JA21 since 18 December 2020, a party he co-founded with Annabel Nanninga. Elected to the House of Re ...
, but a dismal election result leaves the political future of the party quite uncertain. The party is seen as one of the political heirs of the late
Pim Fortuyn
Wilhelmus Simon Petrus Fortuijn, known as Pim Fortuyn (; 19 February 1948 – 6 May 2002), was a Dutch politician, author, civil servant, businessman, sociologist and academic who founded the party Pim Fortuyn List (Lijst Pim Fortuyn or LPF) ...
.
The ''Eén'' in the name ''Eén NL'', meaning 'one', emphasizes national unity where ''NL'' is the standard abbreviation of the Netherlands.
The party broadly stands for opposition to mass immigration to the Netherlands, tax cutting and shrinking government, zero tolerance on crime, constitutional reform (particularly more direct democracy and the direct election of the prime minister and members of parliament), restoring the "human dimension" in large public sectors such as education and health care, and a skeptical attitude to European integration.
Although the party is critical of the "islamization" of the Netherlands, in favor of the assimilation of minorities and opposed to further immigration, it is perceived as taking a less hard line on this issue than other right-wing parties such as
Geert Wilders
Geert Wilders (; born 6 September 1963) is a Dutch politician who has led the Party for Freedom (''Partij voor de Vrijheid'' – PVV) since he founded it in 2006. He is also the party's leader in the House of Representatives (''Tweede Kamer'' ...
'
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 ...
or
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 ...
's
Party for the Netherlands
Party for the Netherlands ( nl, Partij voor Nederland) (PVN) is a Dutch right-wing Fortuynist political party founded in August 2006 by Hilbrand Nawijn, a member of the Dutch House of Representatives.
The party was considered one of several sp ...
. Several moderate Muslims support the party.
On September 20, 2006,
Anton van Schijndel, formerly of the
VVD
The People's Party for Freedom and Democracy ( nl, Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie ; VVD) is a conservative-liberal Andeweg, R. and G. Irwin ''Politics and Governance in the Netherlands'', Basingstoke (Palgrave) p.49 political party in ...
, joined the party and on September 24 he and Eerdmans formed a new parliamentary group with the provisional name ''Groep Eerdmans-Van Schijndel''. The definitive list of candidates was presented on September 30, 2006. Among the new additions to the list were
Hans Smolders
Henricus Adrianus Josephus "Hans" Smolders (born 15 September 1960) is a Dutch politician, former professional ice hockey player and entrepreneur.
He worked as a refrigeration mechanic until he sold his company in 2001. The next year, he was ele ...
, Pim Fortuyn's former chauffeur (the man who chased Fortuyn's assassin and was responsible for his apprehension), Fortuyn's young brother Simon Fortuijn and Jan Dirk Blaauw, a former member of the VVD parliamentary party.
The party program was presented on October 9, 2006, and in November 2006 Marco Pastors published a political pamphlet as well.
On November 15, the party released a radio advert, in which party leader Marco Pastors likened the apathy of "the establishment" towards the "Islamization of the Netherlands" to the laxism of Dutch politics towards the Nazi threat from Germany in the 1930s. In a talkshow Pastors said that the Dutch government must act at once, because "
Hirsi Ali has already had to leave the country,
Theo van Gogh has been murdered, and
honour killing
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is becoming more widespread." Pastors pointed out that even those immigrants that are integrated say that things cannot go on like this.
A lawsuit filed against Pastors by the political opponent
Moslim Democratische Partij was not honored, the judge argued that although the remark was sensitive it was not outside the bounds of law as it remarked not on Islam itself but on islamization as a civic phenomenon.
Elections
Eén NL took part in the
2006 Dutch general election
General elections were held in the Netherlands on 22 November 2006 following the fall of the Second Balkenende cabinet. The elections proved relatively successful for the governing Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) which remained the largest part ...
, but did not get enough votes for a seat in the
House of Representatives
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. Their candidates for the election were:
#Marco Pastors, councillor in Rotterdam for
Leefbaar Rotterdam
Livable Rotterdam ( nl, Leefbaar Rotterdam) is a local political party in the municipality of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, which was founded by Ronald Sørensen in 2001.
Livable Rotterdam won the council elections of March 2002 due to the charis ...
.
#Joost Eerdmans, member of the
House of Representatives
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.
#Hikmat Mahawat Khan, business consultant and co-founder of the Contact Groep Islam.
#Ronald Sorensen, councillor in Rotterdam for
Leefbaar Rotterdam
Livable Rotterdam ( nl, Leefbaar Rotterdam) is a local political party in the municipality of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, which was founded by Ronald Sørensen in 2001.
Livable Rotterdam won the council elections of March 2002 due to the charis ...
.
#Secil Arda, business consultant.
#Sander Simons, PR adviser / former broadcast journalist.
#Anton van Schijndel, member of the
House of Representatives
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.
#Gerlof Jukema, doctor and member of the member of the
House of Representatives
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.
Party Program
The party published its party program on October 9, 2006. However, media reports already provided some details in the week before. The party calls for a 4% income tax reduction across the board, will abolish almost all Dutch foreign development aid, and will return to the taxpayers the "Kok Quarter," a
sales tax
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increase on
gasoline
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introduced by
Labour Party minister
Wim Kok
Willem "Wim" Kok (; 29 September 1938 – 20 October 2018) was a Dutch politician and trade union leader who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 22 August 1994 until 22 July 2002.[Senate
A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...]
and reducing the size of the
House of Representatives
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*Government:
** reduction of number of ministries to 6 (security, environment, general affairs, finance, foreign affairs, social affairs)
** 30% reduction in civil servants in next 4 years, transparency in the appointment of government officials
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* Taxation
** reduction of general income taxes by 1% per year
** abolition of gasoline tax introduced by the Dutch Labour Party
The Labour Party ( nl, Partij van de Arbeid, , abbreviated as ''PvdA'', or ''P van de A'', ) is a social-democratic political party in the Netherlands.
The party was founded in 1946 as a merger of the Social Democratic Workers' Party, the Free ...
Minister Wim Kok
Willem "Wim" Kok (; 29 September 1938 – 20 October 2018) was a Dutch politician and trade union leader who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 22 August 1994 until 22 July 2002.[bureaucracy
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, legalization on the production of soft drugs
* Immigration
** deportation of illegal residents, greencard system
* Integration
** strict separation of church and state
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, no government subsidies for religious and ethnic organizations
** ban on burkas, new immigrants to be required to speak Dutch, official publications to be in Dutch only
* Education
** downsizing schools, cutting management, emphasis on teaching practical skills
* Europe:
** Access for new East European workers to Dutch job market only when existing unemployment is resolved.
References
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Defunct nationalist parties in the Netherlands
Liberal parties in the Netherlands
Political parties established in 2006
Right-wing populism in the Netherlands
Right-wing populist parties