VoorNederland
VoorNederland was a Dutch political party. It was active in the House of Representatives of the Netherlands as the Group Bontes/Van Klaveren, a parliamentary group that was formed on 15 April 2014 by Louis Bontes and Joram van Klaveren, two Members of the House that had left the Party for Freedom, the party they were originally elected to represent. On 28 May 2014 Louis Bontes, Joram van Klaveren and Johan Driessen announced the formation of a new political party.
After failing to garner any seats in the 2017 general elections and with no further financial means, members voted to dissolve the party on 18 June of that year.History
On May 28, 2014, the group officially founded a new political party, VoorNederland , a classical liberal and liberal conservative and eurosceptic political party.
On 13 November 2014, the party announced that it would cooperate with the UK Independence Party in the Alliance for Direct Democracy in Europe.
In December 2014 and January 2015, VNL was joined by former PVV leader in the European Parliament Laurence Stassen and, leading up to the 2015 provincial elections, two provincial PVV representatives from Groningen and Gelderland. On 27 January 2015 it was announced that the members of the party Article 50 had voted to merge it into VoorNederland.
On 21 April 2015 it was announced that jurist and former lawyer Bram Moszkowicz would become the party leader and lijsttrekker of VoorNederland at the next Dutch general election, planned for 2017, but after nine months he was rejected by the party.
In the 2017 Dutch general election, VoorNederland failed to win a single seat, securing just 0.4% of the vote.
On 18 June 2017 the party was dissolved by its members congress.Programme
VNL was a proponent of small government and proposed the introduction of a low flat tax rate. Furthermore, it supported investment in the police and defence, and it wanted to limit the powers of the European Union to a free trade area, and a stricter immigration policy.
