Hero Brinkman

Hero Brinkman (2010)

Hero Brinkman (born December 29, 1964 in Almelo ) is a Dutch politician . From 2006 to 2012 he was a member of the Dutch Parliament ( Second Chamber of the States General ). Until March 2012 he was a member of the right-wing populist Partij voor de Vrijheid (PVV).

He justified his resignation with the oversized role of Geert Wilders in the PVV and ill-considered actions such as the PVV reporting office for problems with Central and Eastern Europeans. Then he formed a one-man faction alone as Lid-Brinkman (Chamber Member Brinkman).

politics

Before his election to the Chamber, Brinkman was a police inspector in a district of Amsterdam. He is against dual citizenship, squatting and tolerance to drugs. He wants to send criminal youth to education camps. In 2007 he called the Netherlands Antilles "a corrupt crook's nest".

His party, the Partij voor de Vrijheid, has the party founder Geert Wilders as the only member . Brinkman spoke out in vain for a democratization of the party and wanted a youth association to be founded.

On December 17, 2010, it was announced that Brinkman was the PVV top candidate for the province of North Holland in the March 2011 elections to the provincial parliament . He announced that in the event of an election he would remain in the Second Chamber, which he did. Even after leaving the PVV parliamentary group in the national parliament, he remained in the parliamentary group in North Holland.

Scandals

In September 2009 there was a physical altercation between Brinkman and a barman in the Parliament's press center ( Nieuwspoort ). Brinkman subsequently publicly admitted to having a drinking problem.

In a survey by RTL Nieuws in November 2010, Brinkman was the only one of 150 MPs in the Second Chamber who did not respond to the question of whether he had ever been convicted. Brinkman then admitted that he tried to avoid alcohol controls in 2001. To do this, he switched off the lights of his car and drove away quickly. He was later arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol. He made an agreement with the judiciary in which he paid 200 euros. The press followed these and similar scandals by PVV MPs with great interest, because the alliance of VVD, CDA and PVV only has a majority in parliament.

Resignation from the PVV parliamentary group and new party

Hero Brinkman in May 2012 at an SGP youth event

On March 20, 2012, Brinkman announced his resignation from the parliamentary group in the national parliament (second chamber) at a press conference . The reason given was irreconcilable differences with party leader Geert Wilders, and Brinkman had also criticized the PVV-operated website Meldpunt Midden- en Oosteuropeanen , where complaints about Central and Eastern Europeans have been submitted since February. When Brinkman left the parliamentary group, the PVV-tolerated coalition government under Prime Minister Mark Rutte lost its narrow majority in the Second Chamber.

At the end of June, Brinkman confirmed to a newspaper that the PVV had received a lot of money from America. In one particular case, it was a suitcase with 75,000 euros that Wilders told him about. Brinkman thinks that is bad because he is sitting in the Chamber for the Netherlands and not for abroad.

In June Brinkman announced that he wanted to run for a new party again for the Chamber. This party was officially registered on June 18 and is called Democratisch Politiek Keerpunt (DPK, roughly: Democratic political turn). This is a merger of Brinkman's short-lived Onafhankelijke Burger Partij with Trots op Nederland , which was founded by Rita Verdonk . The new party should primarily represent the middle class and advocate a common currency for the rich, Western European EU members. The PVV has drifted too far to the left economically. In the new elections to the Second Chamber in September 2012 , DPK received only 0.1% of the votes with the top candidate Brinkman and was unable to secure a mandate.

For the 2017 election, Brinkman again ran a new party, the Ondernemerspartij.