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The Nawijn Group ( nl, Groep Nawijn) is a
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political faction
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founded by
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 ...
, a member of the Dutch
House of Representatives
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. It was founded in June 2005 when Nawijn split from his previous party
Pim Fortuyn List
The Pim Fortuyn List ( nl, Lijst Pim Fortuyn, LPF) was a political party in the Netherlands named after its eponymous founder Pim Fortuyn, a former university professor and political columnist. The party was considered populist, right-wing popu ...
(LPF). It remained a one-man faction in the parliament until August 2006 when LPF
parliamentary
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Gerard van As
Gerard Pieter van As (born 12 November 1944, in Gouda) is a Dutch politician. From 2002 to 2006 he was a member of Pim Fortuyn List (LPF) in the Dutch House of Representatives. He also served as parliamentary chairman of the LPF from 2004 to 20 ...
joined Nawijn after also abandoning the LPF. Nawijn also participated in the
Zoetermeer
Zoetermeer () is a city in the Western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality covers an area of of which is water. A small village until the late 1960s, it had 6,392 inhabitants in 1950. By 2013 this had grown to 123,328 ...
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 chari ...
and the
Pim Fortuyn List
The Pim Fortuyn List ( nl, Lijst Pim Fortuyn, LPF) was a political party in the Netherlands named after its eponymous founder Pim Fortuyn, a former university professor and political columnist. The party was considered populist, right-wing popu ...
both led by Pim Fortuyn in the 2002 elections, these are separate entities. In August 2006 Nawijn announced that he planned to participate 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 par ...