Kay van de Linde – That’s Pieter Omtzigt
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Former spin doctor of Pim Fortuyn, Kay van de Linde: “There is only one political heir: Pieter Omtzigt. I recognize in Omtzigt the same indignation about a government that has completely lost its human touch, the same intelligence in the analyzes of what goes wrong. and the same drive to try to do something completely against the current – if necessary alone.
Geert Wilders is a screamer, Thierry Baudet lives in a fairytale world and Joost Eerdmans is a wannabe.”
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Rita Verdonk – I’ll be close myself
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Former minister Rita Verdonk, now active in municipal politics in The Hague. “I myself come close to Fortuyn’s ideas. I followed the same policy when it comes to immigration and integration. I also think that people should actively participate and that we should admit people selectively. And also our party – Groep de Mos in The Hague – is now excluded.
I never met Fortuyn, I became a minister in 2003. I have been on the board of the Fortuyn Foundation for many years. This is a foundation that is committed to people who dare to go against the grain. I was always charmed by Fortuyn’s character. But I’m less like him in character. I’m also a little more modest.”
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Frits Wester – Pim was unique
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Frits Wester also worked as a journalist in The Hague in 2002. “Pim Fortuyn was the first to make a real big breach in the wall of established parties. The pillarization was coming to an end and he was able to bind people from left to right with a fairly simple message. Most political leaders at the time had they had no idea how to deal with it.After his death, his story was even given a name as a political movement: Fortuynism, while no one knew exactly what that was.
Many people tried to make this legacy their own. But Pim Fortuyn was unique in its kind with all its quirks and quirks. Striking, with pros and cons. It makes little sense to appoint a successor to him. It just isn’t there. Just as little as you can designate a precise successor to Rembrandt or Johan Cruijff.”
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Annemarie Jorritsma- ‘Pim was smart’
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Former minister and party leader in the Senate Annemarie Jorritsma (VVD) – “I don’t see who Fortuyn’s political heir is. I think Pim would have had enough of his group and the work in the House in no time. MPs of the LPF also had very different ideas. When the LPF was in government, they did nothing at all. My big problem with this is that if Pim had not been shot, a completely different movement would have started. sorry that never happened.
Because Pim was simply right-wing in economic terms. The current so-called right-wing parties such as FvD and the PVV are not at all. They are only right-wing in terms of immigration, but they are left-wing in socio-economic terms. They vote in favor of all left-wing motions in the House. Thierry Baudet is also not the political heir of Fortuyn. Baudet is not smart at all. That was Pim.”
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