Election Pamphlet

Party for Freedom

The Netherlands is a splendid land. But it is under pressure. For many reasons. The political elite in Holland systematically ignore the interests and concerns of its citizens.

The streets remain unsafe because of insufficient policing and ineffective penalties. The number of foreigners who yearly come to our country is still excessively high. The demographical developments are plainly alarming: the majority of young people in the big cities is already of non-Western origin. The government is much too big and raises too much tax both on a national and municipal level so that citizens month after month are left with less of the money they have earned.  And vulnerable people like the elderly in nursing and old age homes are leading all too often a degrading existence. All this while a party for paedophiles has been set up and people who mistreat animals are not punished or are let off with nothing more than a fine. That can be, and should be, a lot better.  Decency and good manners must return to our society.

Because of this, urgent changes are necessary: Holland must again become a strong and vital nation; a nation with a smaller government, less finger-wagging, and a lasting stronger economy; a country in which, together with a small efficient government and the responsible individual, the social middle sector (social organisations, club life, family, church, etc) also has the role it deserves; a country that is proud of its identity, dares to name that identity, dares to take action to preserve it, also within a continually expanding Europe; a country that invests more in better security for its inhabitants, better education for its children and humane care for its elderly; a land that resolutely deals with and punishes street crime and Islamic terrorism; a nation with a leadership that resolves the problems of its citizens; a country that listens more to the people and is preoccupied less with itself. In short, a better and stronger Holland!

The Wilders Group/Party for Freedom has made a great many recommendations to create a better and stronger Holland. In the "Independence Declaration", the "Plans for a new Golden Century" and in "Klare Wijn" ["Clear Wine"] are to be found many concrete proposals. In "New Realism" we sketched our ideological framework. In this election pamphlet we are repeating in short and pithy form our most important proposals. Renewing and daring proposals that will lead to a better and stronger Holland.

A Holland to be proud of again!

I.    TAXES

• 16 billion [Euro] of tax cuts for the individual citizen and business people (steep reduction of income tax rates and therefore higher purchase power for everyone, which will be financed from cost cuts in the civil service, Europe, subsidies, development aid)
• A billion extra for pensioners
• Extra money for police on the beat, more teachers in the class and more nursing staff in nursing homes through the trimming of bureaucracy and overheads, and the use of a part of a possible budget surplus in these three sectors
• Lower petrol prices through the winding back of the "temporary" petrol excise introduced by former government finance minister Wim Kok as a measure to meet a budget deficit ("Kwartje van Kok")
• Unchanged maintenance of the tax deduction for mortgage interest
• Less ministries, less civil servants
• No rise in municipal charges

II.  RUTHLESSLY TACKLING CRIME AND TERRORISM

• Higher penalties for criminal behaviour and the introduction of minimum sentences for crimes and infringements
• Prison sentence for life after three crimes of extreme violence
• No more reducing the maximum penalty in the case of attempted crime
• Legal requirement that the Justice Department deprives the criminal of any benefit from his crime
• Abolish the time limit for violent and sex crimes
• No remittance of jail time for good behaviour
• Introduction of re-education camps
• Preventive frisking/search throughout the whole country
• Reintroduction of the youth and vice police
• Legislative banning of the Paedophile Party
• Professional help for victims [of crime]
• End of the toleration policy [of particular socially unacceptable behaviour]: shut marijuana shops, firm dealing with home [drug] cultivation and drug nuisance [in public], no free provision of heroine
• Denaturalisation and deportation of reoffending street terrorists (of Moroccan origin) with dual passports
• Introduction of legal detention in cases of terrorism
• 10 year suspension of social security payments in cases of social security fraud
• Non-Dutch people who commit crimes will be immediately removed from Holland
• Aggression against police officers and other help providers: 1/3 higher minimum penalty and 1/3 higher maximum penalty
• Squatting ban
• Reorganization of police: back from 26 to 4 police regions, plus KLPD [adjunct national police unit mainly for roads, traffic and air]

III.  EDUCATION AND FAMILY

• More attention to education, family and raising children: safe schools, improvement in the quality of teacher education, [traditional] norms and values in family and education, parents more responsible for the criminal behaviour of their under age children (where when applicable it also concerns their own residential status)
• History and national identity prominent in the curriculum of all schools
• Human [natural] standards back in education: smaller schools, primacy with teachers and parents
• Getting rid of second phase/study homes and VMBO [secondary education], reintroduction of trade schools and reformatories [schools of discipline]
• Mandatory social and community service term of 3 months (visiting the elderly etc) as a part of the secondary school curriculum
• Maintenance of Article 23 of the Constitution (freedom of education), but a moratorium of 5 years for Islamic schools
• Clearing the waiting list for youth counselling

IV.   IMMIGRATION AND INTEGRATION

• Immigration stop on non-Western foreigners (Moroccans and Turks) for 5 years
• Bringing in of quota for asylum seekers of maximum 5,000 per year, reception in their own region
• New article 1 of the Constitution: Christian/Judaic/humanist culture must remain dominant in Holland
• Shut radical mosques and remove radical imams from the country
• Ban on the financing from foreign mosques with administrative influence
• Prohibition on foreign imams preaching in Holland, obligation to speak the Dutch language in houses of prayer
• Abolition of the vote in local council elections for non-Dutch people
• Text in government information brochures exclusively in the Dutch language
• Get rid of dual nationality
• No medical care for illegal residents, except in emergencies
• Naturalisation only after ten years of lawful residence in Holland during which one must have worked full time and committed no crime
• The first ten years of residence of foreigners in Holland: no right to social security payments
• No residential visa for migrants, no matter where in the world, who ten years before the visa application were convicted of a crime
• No sending of social security payments outside Europe
• Implementing the Wilders motion concerning the burqa ban in public places
• Ban on head scarves in public functions
• Promotion of voluntary return to the country of origin

V.   DIRECT DEMOCRACY: MORE INFLUENCE FOR THE CITIZEN

• More direct democracy: introduction of binding referenda, to begin with 1) Turkish membership of the European Union 2) Desirability of the Euro 3) Antilles in the Kingdom of the Netherlands or not
• Introduction of a district system, elected mayor and Minister-President
• Abolition of the Upper House
• Reduction of the Lower House from 150 members to 100
• Abolition of intermediary payments to politicians who have resigned or been dumped, the same social security arrangements as other citizens. Immediate introduction of an obligation for former politicians to apply for work
• No salary increase for ministers, elected house representatives and other politicians/administrators
• No government subsidies for political parties

V.  CARE AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS

• Extra money for nursing homes: less bureaucracy/government and more hands at the bed
• Clean and tidy one person rooms for the elderly in nursing homes: the elderly are not prisoners
• Tax free salary for those voluntarily continuing to work after turning 65 years
• Keep the borders closed as long as possible for East-European workers
• Work for the dole
• No fiscal rationalisation of the pension; raising pension bench mark by getting more under sixty-five to work

VII  INFRASTRUCTURE/ AREA PLANNING/ ENERGY

• More investment in roads and traffic: more roads, priority for traffic bottlenecks
• No tolls, no road pricing, abolition of sector speed-check controls
• Raising maximum speed limit, higher still in the evening and during the night
• Second national airport in Flevopolder or in the sea
• From the Green Heart to the Beating Heart: living, working, and recreation
• Build new nuclear power stations

VIII  EUROPEAN UNION/ PEACE OPERATIONS/ FOREIGN POLICIES

• No new member countries for the European Union
• If Turkey is admitted, Holland withdraws
• Abolition of Schengen visas (free entry into other countries); Holland will preside over its own entry policies
• No new European Constitution or handing over of government power/authority to Brussels
• Cooperation with EU economically; return political decision-making to national parliaments
• Abolition of European Parliament, strict limitation of the European Commission and discontinuing the yearly handover of billions by Holland to Brussels
• Less Dutch military contribution to international (peace) operations; maintain a role only in NATO operations
• Greater priority for human rights in foreign policy
• Increasing the efficiency of the military forces
• Improvement of the care and ongoing support for returning military personnel
• Support for the campaign against international terrorist organizations, like Al Qaida, Hezbollah and Hamas

IX  ANIMAL RIGHTS/ ANIMAL WELL-BEING

• Animal rights in the Constitution
• Minimum jail sentence for those mistreating animals
• Following conviction of animal cruelty, a ban on keeping animals
• More priority for the police and justice department in tracking down and prosecuting those mistreating animals (animal cops)
• Introduction of an national alarm number for animals: 113
• Stricter follow-up on the ban on ritual "home slaughter"