Partij voor de Vrijheid

Partij voor de Vrijheid logo, circa 2015 Credit: Salland TV

The Partij voor de Vrijheid (PVV) or Freedom Party is a Dutch anti-immigrant party. It is led by populist MP Geert Wilders.

Structure

The PVV is structured so that it only has two official members: Wilders, and the Friends of the PVV Foundation.

Funding

According to former PVV parliamentarian Hero Brinkmann, the party receives large donations from American supporters.

High profile counterjihad activists Daniel Pipes and David Horowitz have assisted Wilders with fundraising in the US since at least 2010, the latter through his David Horowitz Freedom Center. The Party received $20,000 (€18,110) from his Center in 2014, government documents show. In 2012 Horowitz told Reuters that he had paid Wilders for two speeches, but declined to say how much.

Records declared by the PVV political party to the Dutch authorities reveal that it has had only one donor for the three years up until 2016, the David Horowitz Freedom Center. It donated €108,244.24 to the PVV in 2015, the biggest single donation by a private individual to a Dutch political party. This differs from the amount given by the Horowitz Center, which said it paid $75,000 in both 2014 and 2015 - a total of around 126,000 euros.

In 2016, the amount was much less: $25,000 USD according to NRC.

Daniel Pipes reportedly told Dutch daily newspaper NRC in 2015 that he was withdrawing financial backing of the Dutch populist politician following Wilders’ ‘fewer Moroccans’ chant and court case, which he has since been found guilty of, (although is appealing).

MEPs

• Johannes JG Jansen - aka Hans Jansen, academic and advisory board member of the International Free Press Society (whose ranks include Geert Wilders and co-founder of the International Center for Western Values. Since July 2014.