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. Nagel started his career in his twenties on VARA-Radio where he worked as a producer. At the same time he served as a member of the executive committee of the Dutch Labour Party. Nagel was one of the creators of the radio-program called '' In de Rooie Haan''. He also wrote his ''Tien over Rood'' which served as a political manifesto of the Nieuw Links within the Dutch Labour Party. From 1977 to 1983 Nagel was a PvdA deputy in the Dutch

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. At VARA-Radio he eventually became the editor-in-chief of the ''Achter het Nieuws''. Preoccupied with the problem of the widening gap between politics and people, he founded in 1993 a local party called Leefbaar Hilversum. In 2001 he established

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where he worked with Henk Westbroek,

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, Ton Luiting, Broos Schnetz and

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. He has also been the party chairman of Leefbaar Nederland. In 2005 there followed the

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(in Dutch: ''Partij voor Rechtvaardigheid, Daadkracht en Vooruitgang (PRDV)'') which he founded together with the former police spokesman Klaas Wilting, entrepreneur Peter Schouten and the party's first

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reporter Peter R. de Vries. His autobiography ''Boven het maaiveld'' was published in 2001. Nagel participated in the Provincial States elections of 2 March 2011 as a founding member of

. His son in law is chess grandmaster

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