New Right (Netherlands)
New Right was a nationalist 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)]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.
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 NNP party to form the Actiecomité Stop MARTIJN in 2003, which campaigned against the pedophiles of the Vereniging MARTIJN.
In the first electoral campaign, the party attracted 0.3% of the votes, and no seats. In the 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.