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Dutch politician (1948–2002)

Wilhelmus Simon Petrus Fortuijn, known as Pim Fortuyn (Dutch:[ˈpɪɱfɔrˈtœyn]^ⓘ; 19 February 1948 – 6 May 2002), was a Dutch politician, author, civil servant, businessman, sociologist and academic who founded the party Pim Fortuyn List (Lijst Pim Fortuyn or LPF) in 2002.^[1]

Fortuyn worked as a professor at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam before branching into a business career and was an advisor to the Dutch government on social infrastructure.

He then became prominent in the Netherlands as a press columnist, writer and media commentator.

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Initially a Marxist who was sympathetic to the Communist Party of the Netherlands, and later a member of the Dutch Labour Party in the 1970s, Fortuyn's beliefs began to shift to the right in the 1990s, especially related to the immigration policies of the Netherlands.

Fortuyn criticised multiculturalism, immigration and Islam in the Netherlands. He called Islam "a backward cu