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{{Infobox Political party
| colorcode        = {{party color|New Right (Netherlands)}}
| name             = New Right
| native_name      = Nieuw Rechts
| logo             = [[File:Nieuw Rechts logo.jpg|275px|Logo of Nieuw Rechts]]
| chairman         = [[Michiel Smit]]
| foundation       = 2003
| dissolution      = 2007
| ideology         = [[Nationalism|Dutch nationalism]]<br />[[Criticism of Islam|Anti-Islam]]<br />[[Anti-immigration]]
| position         = [[Far-right politics|Far-right]]
| split            = [[Livable Rotterdam|Leefbaar Rotterdam]]
| membership       = 
| youth_wing       = Jong Rechts<br />(''Young Right'')
| international    = 
| european         = [[Vlaams Belang]], [[Euronat]]
| colours          = {{color box|{{party color|New Right (Netherlands)}}|border=darkgray}} [[Red]]<br>{{color box|#FFFFFF|border=darkgray}} [[White]]<br>{{color box|#1B448C|border=darkgray}} [[Blue]]
| headquarters     = [[Rotterdam]], [[Kingdom of the Netherlands|The Netherlands]]
| newspaper        = Nieuws uit Rotterdam<br />(''News from Rotterdam'')
| website          = http://www.nieuwrechts.nl<br />http://www.nieuwrechts.eu<br />(defunct)
| country          = the Netherlands
}}
'''New Right''' (Dutch: ''Nieuw Rechts'', abbr. '''NR''') was a [[nationalism|nationalist]] [[Politics of the Netherlands|Dutch]] [[political party]], founded by [[Michiel Smit]] in February 2003 and dissolved in December 2007.

==History==
[[Image:MichielSmit3juli2003.jpg|thumb|185px|left|Michiel Smit (2003)]]
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Michiel Smit was secretary of [[Pim Fortuyn]]'s local [[Leefbaar Rotterdam]] party. He was elected into the [[Rotterdam]] city council in March 2002. After the assassination of Fortuyn, May 6, 2002, the [[Leefbaar Rotterdam]] leadership was handed over to [[Ronald Sørensen]]. [[Michiel Smit]] was forced out of the Leefbaar Rotterdam party though in February 2003, after it became public that Smit participated on various rightwing radical internet fora, one of which was the American-based ''[[Stormfront (website)|Stormfront]]''.

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However, Smit held on to his seat in the Rotterdam city council, forming a one-person party called Nieuw Rechts. From this position, Smit started to build up the Nieuw Rechts party. New Right worked with the nationalist [[New National Party (Netherlands)|NNP]] party (whose chairman Florens van der Kooi worked for a time at the New Right party office) to form the ''Actiecomité Stop MARTIJN'' in 2003, which campaigned against the pedophiles of the [[Vereniging Martijn|Vereniging MARTIJN]].

In the first electoral campaign (the [[2004 European Parliament election in the Netherlands|2004 European Elections]]), the party attracted 0.3% of the votes, and no seats. In the [[2006 Dutch municipal election|Dutch municipal elections]] of 2006, New Right fielded candidates in [[Rotterdam]], [[Ridderkerk]], [[Almelo]] and [[Eindhoven]], obtaining 0.06% of the total vote and one seat in the council of Ridderkerk.

==Ideology==
The most important issue for the New Right was [[immigration]] and [[Racial integration|integration]] of [[Muslim]]s. Smit held then controversial views like forced repatriation of criminal foreigners and mandatory Dutch services in mosques. These views have since become mainstream in Dutch politics.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.elsevier.nl/web/Nieuws/Politiek/157665/Kamp-Zet-criminele-allochtonen-het-land-uit.htm | title=Kamp: Zet criminele allochtonen het land uit | publisher=Elsevier | date=February 11, 2008 | accessdate=May 12, 2011 | language=nl | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402144105/http://www.elsevier.nl/web/Nieuws/Politiek/157665/Kamp-Zet-criminele-allochtonen-het-land-uit.htm | archivedate=April 2, 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.rnw.nl/nederlands/article/en-toch-heeft-de-poldermoskee-de-toekomst | title=En tóch heeft de Poldermoskee de toekomst | publisher=Radio Netherlands Worldwide | date=November 13, 2010 | accessdate=May 12, 2011|language=nl}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
{{commons category|Nieuw Rechts}}
*{{in lang|nl}} {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060622175542/http://www.nieuwrechts.eu/cms/ |date=22 June 2006 |title=Site of ''Nieuw Rechts''}} (Mar. 2003 - Jun. 2008)
*{{in lang|nl}} {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120403025302/http://collections.europarchive.org/ea/*/http://www.nieuwrechts.nl |date=3 April 2012 |title=Site of ''Nieuw Rechts''}} (Apr. 2005 - Jan. 2006)
*{{in lang|nl}} {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.nieuwrechts.eu |date=* |title=Site of ''Nieuw Rechts''}} (Jun. 2006 - Feb. 2008)

{{Defunct political parties in the Netherlands}}

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[[Category:Euronat members]]
[[Category:Far-right politics in the Netherlands]]
[[Category:Right-wing populism in the Netherlands]]
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[[Category:2003 establishments in the Netherlands]]
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[[Category:Government of Rotterdam]]
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