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piet prut en 20 brave slaven - 04.07.2002 19:55
Dutch hate party collapses in squabbling
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ze reageren op een stukje uit de independent:  http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=311398
Splits threaten to rip apart Fortuyn party
By Stephen Castle in Brussels
03 July 2002
Almost two months after the murder of the anti-immigration campaigner Pim Fortuyn, the party he left behind will try to stave off a formal split and prepare for a key role in a new Dutch government today.
Riven by divisions, rocked by a row over its leader, and lacking a party organisation or coherent policy programme, Lijst Fortuyn (LPF) will attempt to paper over the cracks at a party congress in Rotterdam.
If, as expected, a compromise between the warring factions prevents the formal division of the party, the LPF will take its place in a coalition government whose policy programme will go before parliament tomorrow.
But the intense politicking has incensed Marten Fortuyn, Pim Fortuyn´s older brother, who threatened last week to ban the party from using the family name unless the dispute was ended.
The row also raised questions over the future of the LPF. Jan Peter Balkenende, the prime minister-in-waiting and Christian Democrat leader, has pieced together a coalition programme with the Liberals and the LPF after more than five weeks of talks, focusing on reform of the health and social security system and a tightening of the immigration laws.
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