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Party for Freedom Partij voor de Vrijheid | |
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| Abbreviation | PVV |
| Leader | Geert Wilders |
| Leader in the House of Representatives | Geert Wilders |
| Leader in the Senate | Alexander van Hattem |
| Leader in the European Parliament | Sebastiaan Stöteler |
| Founded | 22 February 2006[1] |
| Split from | People's Party for Freedom and Democracy |
| Membership (2025) |  1 (Geert Wilders)[1] |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Right-wing to far-right |
| European affiliation | Patriots.eu |
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| Colours | Navy blue Silver |
| House of Representatives | 37 / 150 |
| Senate | 4 / 75 |
| Provincial councils | 34 / 570 |
| European Parliament | 6 / 31 |
| Benelux Parliament | 4 / 21 |
| Website | |
| www | |
The Party for Freedom (Dutch: Partij voor de Vrijheid [pɑrˈtɛi voːr də ˈvrɛiɦɛit], PVV) is a nationalist and right-wing populist[2][3][4] political party in the Netherlands. Geert Wilders is the founder, party leader, and sole member of the party.[5]
Founded in 2006 as the successor to Wilders' one-man group in the House of Representatives, it won nine seats in the 2006 general election. In the 2010 general election, it won 24 seats, making it the third-largest party. At that time the PVV agreed to provide confidence and supply to the minority first Rutte cabinet. PVV withdrew its support in April 2012 due to differences over budget cuts.[6] In the following 2012 general election, it lost 9 seats. Following the elections, the party returned to the opposition. Furthermore, in the 2017 general election, the Party for Freedom won 20 seats. In the 2023 general election, it became the largest party in the House of Representatives. After the election, it entered government for the first time as part of the Schoof cabinet.
PVV's main issues are migration and critique of Islam. The PVV has proposed banning the Quran and shutting down all mosques in the Netherlands.[7] The party is Eurosceptic[8][9] and favoured a Nexit until 2024.[10]
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- ^ Oudenampsen, Merijn (2013). "Explaining the Swing to the Right: The Dutch Debate on the Rise of Right-Wing Populism". In Wodak, Ruth; KhosraviNik, Majid; Mral, Brigitte (eds.). Right-Wing Populism in Europe: Politics and Discourse. A&C Black. p. 191.
- ^ Nordsieck, Wolfram (2021). "Netherlands". Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on 2 April 2017. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
- ^ Voerman & Vossen 2019, p. 7.
- ^ "Dutch elections loom as budget talks collapse". Euronews. Archived from the original on 23 April 2012. Retrieved 22 April 2012.
- ^ Vossen 2013, pp. 70.
- ^ Magone, José M. (2011). Comparative European Politics: An Introduction. Routledge. p. 17. ISBN 978-0-203-84639-1.
- ^ Albertazzi, Daniele; McDonnell, Duncan (2008), Twenty-first century populism: The spectre of Western European democracy, Palgrave Macmillan, p. 164
- ^ Haan, Marko de (5 April 2024). "Wilders wil tóch maar geen Nexit. Het past in een bredere trend waarin radicaalrechtse partijen de EU juist gebruiken". NRC (in Dutch).
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