VoorNederland (translated: For Netherlands or Pro-Netherlands) was a Dutch political party. It was previously active in the House of Representatives of the Netherlands as the Group Bontes/Van Klaveren (Dutch: Groep Bontes/Van Klaveren), a parliamentary group founded in April 2014. The parliamentary group was succeeded by a political party in May 2014. After failing to garner win a single seat in the 2017 general election, the party disbanded.
In December 2014 and January 2015, VNL was joined by former PVV leader in the European Parliament Laurence Stassen[9] and, leading up to the 2015 provincial elections, two provincial PVV representatives from Groningen and Gelderland.[10] On 27 January 2015 it was announced that the members of the party Article 50 had voted to merge it into VoorNederland.[11]
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,[12] but after nine months he was rejected by the party.[13]
Because of its election failure and lack of money, the party was dissolved by its members congress on 18 June 2017.[15]
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, the party had ties with UKIP.[2]