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Who is Pim Fortuyn?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The man with the unlikely name is the very charismatic but openly racist politician and leader of the far right Leefbaar Nederland, the largest political party in Rotterdam.
It's a mystery why he got so popular - he favours zero Muslim immigration, wants to cut the annual number of immigrants accepted to 10,000 from 40,000, and has campaigned for a key anti-discrimination clause to be removed from the constitution.
Yes, in Rotterdam, where almost half of the 600,000 population are of non-Dutch extraction, he won 17 of the city council's 45 seats at the beginning of March, ending the ruling Labour party's post-war dominance.
Bram Peper, the ousted mayor of Rotterdam, said: "I don't know what's going on, but something is terribly wrong in Rotterdam."