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Centre Party '86 Centrumpartij '86 | |
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| Chairman | Wim Wijngaarden (1986–1994) Henk Ruitenberg (1994–1998) |
| Founded | 20 May 1986 |
| Banned | 18 November 1998 |
| Ideology | Ethnic nationalism[1] Neo-Nazism Ultranationalism |
| Political position | Far-right |
| Slogan | Eigen Volk Eerst |
TheCentre Party '86 (Dutch:Centrumpartij '86; abbr.CP’86), briefly known as theNational People's Party/CP'86 (Dutch:Nationale Volkspartij/CP’86) was a Dutchfar-right political party which existed between 1986 and 1998. The party claimed to represent the interests of indigenous Dutch society. The CP'86 acted as a kind of successor and continuation of theCentre Party. The CP'86 was established on 20 May 1986 and dissolved on 18 November 1998 before an Amsterdam court ruled the party to be illegal.
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The Centre Party fell apart in 1986. Right before the1986 general election, a 'restart' byWim Wijngaarden andDanny Segers under the name CP'86 followed. After long deliberation, a text of theNPD was selected as the party manifesto.[2] Wijngaarden became chairman. He would be succeeded by Henk Ruitenberg in 1994 for health reasons.
In the early years, the CP'86 did not do well. There were many internal controversies and the name-recognition of competitorCD proved stronger than expected. In the1987 provincial elections, the seat inFlevoland, which was occupied byWim Beaux for the Centre Party, was lost. Neither of the rival nationalist parties managed to win a seat in any of the provinces. The CP'86 did not participate In the1989 general elections, that incidentally, led to the re-entry ofHans Janmaat into parliament, this time forCD.
On 21 March 1990, CP'86 won 11 seats in five municipalities. Necessary changes were made for that year. A large group of young people from the banned Youth Front Netherlands (JFN) under their former chairmanStewart Mordaunt joined up with CP'86. Since then, the party had used the originalCeltic cross as an emblem.[citation needed] Mordaunt himself was elected in March in the municipal council of The Hague. This group ensured that the party became much more active and larger, but it also radicalized the party.[3] Under the energetic leadership of Henk Ruitenberg, who joined in 1993, assisted byTim Mudde from the JFN, the party went through a revival.
From May 1992 to May 1996, Tim Mudde was the party secretary and fully put his political street activism into practice. During the1994 municipal elections, the CP'86 won nine seats in seven municipal councils. However, the party had no seats in the House of Representatives, but got quite close in 1994. The number of council seats declined after the mid-90s despite the activism as a result of the economic development and competition fromCD. The party was reformed at the end of 1994 and renamedNational People's Party / CP'86 to distinguish itself with its radical character. This name went mostly unused.
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TheMinistry of Justice had been watching the party for some time. As part of the judicial investigation, the party leadership underwent house searches. After these house searches it took considerable effort for the party organisation to be re-established. When the CP'86 party leadership, now headed by theRotterdammerMartijn Freling, made racist statements in a public party meeting in 1995, the entire board was convicted for heading a criminal organisation.
Major disagreements about the party's image led to mass expulsions. From November 1996 to February 1997, there were two CP'86 boards, one under Mordaunt and the other under the anti-Freling Beaux. The latter, which wanted a 'clean' image, started a new party in 1997 under the name Volksnationalisten Nederland (VNN) with Beaux, and later Ruitenberg, as president. VNN made use of publicity stunts and took part in Rotterdam council elections, but booked disappointing results. The VNN merged in 1998 with the newly establishedNew National Party (NNP).
Meanwhile, thePublic Prosecution Service was looking to confirm that CP'86 was not a political party, but a criminal organization. On 30 September 1997, the Supreme Court condemned the then central administration and former chairman Wijngaarden together with the party as a criminal organization that was systematically guilty of inciting xenophobia, which meant the end of CP'86.
As a result, the party was banned under orders of Minister of JusticeBenk Korthals. The Amsterdam court ruled that the party was a criminal organization. Prior to the verdict, the party had long since become an empty shell. Chairman Frelin decided not to appeal the verdict.[4] The party was dissolved.
| Election | Lead candidate | List | Votes | Seats | Ref. | ||
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| No. | % | No. | ± | ||||
| 1986 | List | 36,741 | 0.4 | 0 / 150 | [5] | ||
| 1994 | List | 32,327 | 0.4 | 0 / 150 | |||
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