Party for Freedom
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Party for Freedom
Partij voor de Vrijheid |
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| Leader | Geert Wilders |
| House Leader | Geert Wilders |
| Senate Leader | Marjolein Faber |
| European Leader | Marcel de Graaff |
| Founded | 22 February 2006 |
| Split from | People's Party for Freedom and Democracy |
| Membership | 1 |
| Ideology |
Dutch nationalism Right-wing populism Anti-Islam Anti-immigration Hard Euroscepticism |
| Political position | Right-wing to Far-right |
| European affiliation | European Alliance for Freedom |
| International affiliation | International Freedom Alliance |
| European Parliament group | Europe of Nations and Freedom |
| Colours |
Blue, white, red (Dutch tricolour) |
| House of Representatives |
20 / 150
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| Senate |
9 / 75
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| States-Provincial |
66 / 570
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| European Parliament |
4 / 26
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| Website | |
| www |
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The Party for Freedom (Dutch: Partij voor de Vrijheid, PVV) is a Dutch nationalist and right-wing populist political party in the Netherlands.
Founded in 2006 as the successor to Geert Wilders' one-man party in the House of Representatives, it won nine seats in the 2006 general election making it the fifth-largest party in parliament. In the 2010 general election it won 24 seats, making it the third-largest party. At that time the PVV agreed to support the minority government led by Prime Minister Mark Rutte without having ministers in the cabinet. However the PVV withdrew its support in April 2012 due to differences over budget cuts at the Catshuis. It came third in the 2014 European Parliament election, winning four out of 26 seats. In the 2017 election, the Party for Freedom won 20 seats, making it the second-largest party in the House of Representatives.
The PVV calls for items like administrative detention and a strong assimilationist stance on the integration of immigrants into Dutch society, differing from the established centre-right parties in the Netherlands (like the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, VVD). The PVV has also proposed banning the Quran and shutting down all mosques in the Netherlands. In addition, the party is consistently Eurosceptic and since early July 2012, according to the program it presented for the elections a few months later in September, it strongly advocates withdrawal from the EU.
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