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Netherlands: Election results

01 May 1994

On May 3, the Dutch voted for a new parliament. The extreme right Centrumdemocraten (CD) gained 2.5% of the votes, thus securing 3 seats (was 1) in the 150-seat Tweede Kamer (Second Chamber, Lower House). The even more extreme CP'86 gained 0.4%. Disturbingly, among the voters between 18-24 the CD took 6% of the votes.

Over the last two months several CD and CP'86 representatives in municipal councils and party officials have been exposed as being involved in criminal activities such as drug dealing,
fraud, illegal possession of firearms, violence against foreigners and racist insults. Investigative journalism including three cases of undercover infiltrations and extensive press coverage of the criminal and neo-fascist elements in the ranks of extreme right parties can be credited with a considerable loss in voters" support. A group of CD party members have come forward to accuse their chairman Hans Janmaat of monomaniac behaviour. They have demanded the purging of all openly racist and neo-fascist elements in the party because they fear to be banned to the political fringe or even outlawed as a party altogether. Meanwhile, the other parties have decided to allow the new CD faction in parliament access to the informal agenda-setting meetings and other fora from which Mr Janmaat as a single MP has thus far been excluded.