Centre Party '86
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The Centre Party '86, {Dutch
Dutch language
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: Centrumpartij '86; abbr. CP’86), was a Dutch
Netherlands
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 far right political party which existed between 1986 and 1998. The party was a more radical splinter from the Centre Party
Centre Party (Netherlands)
The Centre Party was a Dutch nationalist extreme right-wing political party espousing an anti-immigrant program. The party was founded by Henry Brookman in 1980, and was represented by Hans Janmaat in the Dutch House of Representatives from 1982, until he was expelled from the party in 1984 and...

 and was established on 20 May 1986 and was disestablished on 18 November 1998, before an Amsterdam
Amsterdam
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 court ruled the party to be illegal. The NNP
New National Party (Netherlands)
The New National Party was a Dutch nationalist political party which existed between 1998 and 2005. It succeeded the "Volksnationalisten Nederland" party which had been founded in 1997...

 split off from the CP'86 in turn, several key people of that party had been prominent CP'86 members.

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Right-Wing Extremism in the Netherlands: Why it is still a marginal phenomenon Dr. Paul Lucardie, DNPP (RUG
University of Groningen
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), November 2000
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