Johannes Gerardus Hendrikus "Hans" Janmaat was a Dutch businessman and politician of the Centre Party (CP) who later founded the Centre Democrats (CD).
Hans Janmaat in 1983
Hans Janmaat on the Binnenhof with protesters on 16 September 1982.
Hans Janmaat in the House of Representatives on 17 May 1984.
Centre Party (Netherlands)
The Centre Party was a Dutch nationalist, right-wing extremist political party espousing an anti-immigrant program. The party was founded by Henry Brookman in 1980, and was represented by Hans Janmaat in the Dutch House of Representatives from 1982, until he was expelled from the party in 1984 and joined the more moderate Centre Democrats. The CP, as well as the CD, was subject to a cordon sanitaire by the other parties in the House of Representatives. After much infighting and finally legal proceedings against the party, it was declared bankrupt in 1986. The party was soon after succeeded by the Centre Party '86, which would become increasingly radical, until it was banned in 1998.
Demonstration outside parliament in The Hague against the entrance of the Centre Party in the House in 1982. In the picture, a large banner reading "they are back."
Janmaat, leader of the Centre Party, during a television broadcast for political parties (February 1984).
