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{{Short description|Dutch political party}}
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{{Infobox political party
| country          = the Netherlands
| name             = Pim Fortuyn List
| native_name      = Lijst Pim Fortuyn
| logo             = Lijst Pim Fortuyn logo.jpg
| logo_size        = 250px
| colorcode        = {{party color|Pim Fortuyn List}}
| abbreviation     = '''LPF'''
| leader           = {{Unbulleted list
 | [[Pim Fortuyn]] (first)
 | [[Olaf Stuger]] (last)
}}
| chairman         = {{Unbulleted list
 | [[Pim Fortuyn]] (first)
 | Bert Snel (last)
}}
| founder          = Pim Fortuyn
| founded          = {{Start date and age|2002|02|14|df=y}}
| dissolved        = {{End date and age|2008|01|01|df=y}}
| split            = [[Livable Netherlands]]
| youth_wing       = Jonge Fortuynisten
| wing1_title      = Thinktank
| wing1            = Prof.Dr. W.S.P. Fortuynstichting
| membership_year  = 
| membership       = 
| ideology         = {{nowrap|[[Classical liberalism]]<ref name="Andeweg, R p.49" /><br>[[Conservative liberalism]]<ref name="Andeweg, R p.49" /><ref name="Priester 2012 231" /><br>[[Fortuynism]]<br>[[Right-wing populism]]<br>[[Republicanism in the Netherlands|Republicanism]]<ref name="Andeweg, R p.49" /><br>[[Euroscepticism]]<ref name="Moroska2009"/><ref name="Mudde2007" />}}
| position         = [[Right-wing politics|Right-wing]]<ref name="Sunier2006"/><ref name="Andeweg, R p.49" />
| european         = 
| international    = 
| europarl         = [[Union for Europe of the Nations]]
| colours          = {{color box|{{party color|Pim Fortuyn List}}|border=darkgray}} [[Yellow]]<br>{{color box|#2E498E|border=darkgray}} [[Blue]]
| slogan           = ''At your service!'' (2002), ''Geef ons een 2e kans'' (Give us a second chance, 2003)/''Wij hebben lef, wij stemmen LPF'' (We have courage, we vote LPF) (2003)
| headquarters     = [[Spaanse Kubus]] <br /> Vlaardingweg 62 <br /> [[Rotterdam]]
| website          = None
}}

The '''Pim Fortuyn List''' ({{langx|nl|Lijst Pim Fortuyn}}, '''LPF''') was a [[list of political parties in the Netherlands|political party in the Netherlands]] that existed from 2002 to 2008 at a national level and was named after its [[eponym]]ous founder [[Pim Fortuyn]], a former university professor and political columnist. The party was often considered [[populism|right-wing populist]]<ref name="StarkeKaasch2013">{{cite book|author1=Peter Starke|author2=Alexandra Kaasch|author3=Franca Van Hooren|title=The Welfare State as Crisis Manager: Explaining the Diversity of Policy Responses to Economic Crisis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BtMQsESYcWwC&pg=PA193|year=2013|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-1-137-31484-0|page=193}}</ref><ref name="DijkHoogewoningPunch2015">{{cite book|author1=Auke van Dijk|author2= Frank Hoogewoning|author3=Maurice Punch|title=What matters in policing?: Change, values and leadership in turbulent times|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CiWMCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT69|year=2015|publisher=Policy Press|isbn=978-1-4473-2695-3|page=69}}</ref>  [[Nationalism|nationalist]] by media and political observers due to its policies<ref name="Moroska2009"/> as well as adhering to its own distinct ideology of ''[[Fortuynism]]'' according to some commentators which reflected the political ideas of Fortuyn.<ref name="economist.com">{{Cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/europe/2002/11/28/fortuynism-without-fortuyn|title = Fortuynism without Fortuyn|newspaper = The Economist|date = 28 November 2002}}</ref><ref name=m213214>{{harvnb|Mudde|2007|pp=213–214}}</ref><ref name="Andeweg, R p.49">[[Rudy Andeweg|Andeweg, R.]] and G. Irwin ''Politics and Governance in the Netherlands'', Basingstoke (Palgrave) p.49</ref>

The LPF supported tougher measures against immigration and crime, opposition to [[multiculturalism]], greater political reform, a reduction in state bureaucracy and was [[eurosceptic]] but differed somewhat from other European right-wing or nationalist parties by taking a liberal stance on certain social issues and sought to describe its ideology as [[pragmatism|pragmatic]] and not [[populism|populistic]]. It also aimed to present itself as an alternative to the [[Polder model]] of Dutch politics and the governing style of the existing mainstream parties.<ref name="Interview with Belgium news agency">{{cite web|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODW8uQTbhGw| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/ODW8uQTbhGw| archive-date=2021-12-11 | url-status=live|title=Interview with Belgium news agency| website=[[YouTube]]| date=24 October 2008}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name="Oliver">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/may/07/qanda.thefarright|last=Oliver|first=Mark|title=The shooting of Pym Fortuyn|newspaper=The Guardian|date=7 May 2002|access-date=27 May 2019}}</ref>
 
Pim Fortuyn had initially had planned to contest the [[2002 Dutch general election|2002 general election]] as leader of the [[Livable Netherlands]] (LN) party. He was however dismissed as leader of LN in February 2002 due to controversial remarks he made in a newspaper interview on [[immigration]]-related issues, and instead founded LPF a few days later, taking many former LN candidates with him. After gaining support in opinion polls, Fortuyn was [[Assassination of Pim Fortuyn|assassinated on 6 May 2002]], nine days before the election. The party held onto its support, and went on to become the second-largest party in the election.

The LPF formed part of a [[coalition government]] with the [[Christian Democratic Appeal]] (CDA) and the [[People's Party for Freedom and Democracy]] (VVD) as part of the [[first Balkenende cabinet]] and was granted ministerial posts. However, internal conflicts in the LPF led to the coalition's break-up and fresh elections after a few months. Following the [[2003 Dutch general election|2003 election]], the party was left in opposition. It became clear that the party was not viable without its original leader, and it went into decline until it was finally dissolved in 2008. Despite this, Fortuyn and the LPF have had a significant influence on changing public discourse on immigration, multiculturalism, and political reform, and went on to influence politicians in both older and newer political parties in the Netherlands.