VoorNederland | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Abbreviation | VNL |
| Leader | Jan Roos[1] |
| Chairman | Laurence Stassen |
| Secretary | Joram van Klaveren |
| Treasurer | Johan Driessen |
| Leader in theHouse of Representatives | Louis Bontes |
| Founders | Louis Bontes Joram van Klaveren Johan Driessen |
| Founded | 28 May 2014 |
| Dissolved | 20 March 2017 |
| Split from | Party for Freedom |
| Headquarters | Het Plein 2, The Hague |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Right-wing[3] |
| European affiliation | Alliance for Direct Democracy in Europe |
| Colours | Blue |
| Website | |
| vnl | |
VoorNederland (lit. 'For the Netherlands'; abbreviatedVNL) was a Dutch political party. It had been active in theHouse of Representatives as theBontes/Van Klaveren Group (Dutch:Groep Bontes/Van Klaveren), aparliamentary group founded in April 2014. The parliamentary group was succeeded by a political party in May 2014. After failing to win a seat in the2017 general election, the party disbanded.
The Bontes/Van Klaveren Group (Dutch:Groep Bontes/Van Klaveren) was aparliamentary group formed on 15 April 2014 byLouis Bontes andJoram van Klaveren, twoMembers of the House that had left theParty for Freedom (PVV), the party they were originally elected to represent.[5][6]
On 28 May 2014, group members officially founded a new political party, VoorNederland, aclassical liberal andliberal conservative[2] andeuroscepticpolitical party.[3]
On 13 November 2014, the party announced that it would cooperate with theUK Independence Party in theAlliance for Direct Democracy in Europe.[7][8]
In December 2014 and January 2015, VNL was joined by former PVV leader in the European ParliamentLaurence Stassen[9] and, leading up to the2015 provincial elections, two provincial PVV representatives fromGroningen andGelderland.[10] On 27 January 2015 it was announced that the members of the partyArticle 50 had voted to merge it into VoorNederland.[11]
On 21 April 2015, it was announced that jurist and former lawyerBram Moszkowicz would become the party leader andlijsttrekker of VoorNederland at the next Dutch general election, planned for 2017,[12] but after nine months he was rejected by the party.[13]
In the2017 Dutch general election, VoorNederland failed to win a single seat, securing just 0.4% of the vote.[14]
Because of its election failure and lack of money, the party was dissolved by its members congress on 18 June 2017.[15]
VNL was a proponent ofsmall government and proposed the introduction of a lowflat tax rate. Furthermore, it supported investment in the police and defence, and it wanted to limit the powers of theEuropean Union to a free trade area, and a stricter immigration policy, the party had ties withUKIP.[2]
