Editing Pim Fortuyn List (section)

====Domestic policy====
Many of the LPF's policies for the [[2002 Dutch general election|2002 general election]] were based on proposals put forward in Fortuyn's book ''[[De puinhopen van acht jaar Paars]]''. The LPF campaigned on a strong law and order message at both local and national levels. The party supported cutting state [[bureaucracy]] while strengthening [[public services]]. The party also called for reforms to the Netherland's employment policy, proposed reducing the number of civil servants and abolishing permanent contracts for government employees.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/the-forgotten-fortuyn |title=The Forgotten Fortuyn |journal=NLR/Sidecar |date=22 July 2022 |access-date=2024-03-10 |last1=Oudenampsen |first1=Merijn }}</ref> It also wanted to revise and strongly restrict immigration and asylum policies, particularly from Islamic societies, as well as put an end to the Dutch government's policy of pursuing [[multiculturalism]]. Instead, the party argued for compulsory policies that existing immigrants learn Dutch and become integrated while future immigration would be reduced or halted until existing immigrants had been assimilated.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/more.php?id=2642_0_4_0|title = France, Netherlands: Le Pen, Pim Fortuyn – Migration News &#124; Migration Dialogue}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2002/09/holl-s09.html|title=Holland: Pim Fortuyn List leads new government's right-wing assault|date=9 September 2002 }}</ref> However, Fortuyn also maintained that asylum seekers or illegal immigrants who had been living in the Netherlands for a long period should not be deported and instead be pardoned and offered a path to citizenship if they demonstrated the ability to assimilate into Dutch society and had not committed crimes while potential migrants would be offered financial incentives to stay in their own country.<ref name="Dutch fall for gay Mr Right">{{cite news |url= https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/apr/14/andrewosborn.theobserver |title= Dutch fall for gay Mr Right|work=The Observer |date=14 April 2002}}</ref> During the 2002 election and cabinet formation, the LPF proposed that asylum seekers who already had been in the Netherlands for more than five years could be pardoned while the government should temporarily stop all future immigration and asylum intake. In the [[First Balkenende cabinet]], LPF immigration minister [[Hilbrand Nawijn]] proposed the ''One-off Regulation 2003'' which would give a grace period for long-term asylum seekers to gain residency while asylum migration would be frozen for a period, however the cabinet collapsed before this could be effectuated. The party also supported the right to [[freedom of speech]] and took a [[socially liberal]] stance on issues such as gay rights, soft drug legalization and gender equality.

The LPF also supported reforming the Dutch economic model, arguing that outdated bureaucracy and welfare systems had created psychological and physical barriers to entrepreneurship and modernization of the economy. Fortuyn supported locating workplaces, smaller schools and regional hospitals closer to communities, expanding internet infrastructure outside of cities and replacing parts of the state with digital technology. Some political historians describe the LPF as supporting "market populist" ideas and holding both a free market vision while stressing communitarian ideas and being one of the first European populist parties associated with a rise in anti-globalization arguments.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/the-forgotten-fortuyn |title=The Forgotten Fortuyn |journal=NLR/Sidecar |date=22 July 2022 |access-date=2024-03-24 |last1=Oudenampsen |first1=Merijn }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00344890408523255 |title=Pim Fortuyn And the 'new' far right in the Netherlands |date=2004 |doi=10.1080/00344890408523255 |access-date=2024-03-24 |last1=Dorussen |first1=Han |journal=Representation |volume=40 |issue=2 |pages=131–145 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>