Editing Pim Fortuyn List (section)

===Fortuyn assassination===
{{Further|Assassination of Pim Fortuyn}}
It was reported in February&nbsp;2002 that Fortuyn did not dare to appear in public owing to [[death threat]]s. In March, he was attacked by [[pieing|pie-throwing]] activists at the presentation of his new book ''[[De puinhopen van acht jaar Paars]]'' (which became the bestselling book by a Dutch author in the Netherlands in 2002).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.cpnb.nl/blobs/cpnb/61970/2010/22/CPNBTOP100_2002.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-04-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017192242/http://web.cpnb.nl/blobs/cpnb/61970/2010/22/CPNBTOP100_2002.pdf |archive-date=2013-10-17 }}</ref> Despite this, the authorities did not provide protection for Fortuyn, nor did he request protection. In various interviews, including with the [[BBC]] and ''[[Jensen!]],'' Fortuyn expressed a concern that he would be killed or injured during the election campaign, and argued that if such an event were to happen, the media and Dutch political establishment would be to blame through creating a hostile atmosphere against him.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/1966979.stm|title = At home with 'Professor Pim'|date = 4 May 2002}}</ref>

On 6&nbsp;May, Fortuyn was assassinated outside a radio studio in [[Hilversum]].<ref name=rvh47/> This was the first political murder in the Netherlands for centuries (excluding the [[World War II|Second World War]]). Some claimed that by demonising Fortuyn, the [[political left]] and the [[mass media|media]] had created a climate of opinion that had made the assassination possible.<ref name=jbjz>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5GL4QIQsA7cC&pg=PA275|page=275|first1=Jens|last1=Borchert|first2=Jürgen|last2=Zeiss|title=The political class in advanced democracies|year=2003|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-926036-2}}</ref> Campaigning immediately stopped, and although some suggested postponing the elections, the campaign resumed (half-heartedly) after his funeral four days later.<ref name=m211/><ref name=rvh48>{{harvnb|Rydgren|van Holsteyn|2005|p=48}}</ref> His funeral was broadcast live on television and, according to [[Cas Mudde]], lead "to scenes of mass hysteria not seen since the [[Netherlands national football team]] won the [[UEFA Euro 1988|European Championship in 1988]]."<ref name=m211/> The murder of Fortuyn, together with that of [[Theo van Gogh (film director)|Theo van Gogh]] two years later, would result in a polarisation in the political debate in the Netherlands, and subsequently changes in immigration-related policies and public discourse.<ref>{{cite web|work=International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam|title=ISS Development Research Seminar Series – Autumn 2010|date=15 December 2010}}</ref>

[[File:Pim Fortuyn List election poster.jpg|thumb|right|220px|LPF 2002 election poster featuring [[Pim Fortuyn]] with his slogan "At your service!"]]