The Dutch Block was a Dutch

Politics of the Netherlands

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 nationalist

Nationalism

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 political party

Political party

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 espousing an anti-immigrant program. It was founded by Alfred Vierling

Alfred Vierling

Drs. Alfred Vierling is a Dutch politician, who was active in the '80s in the nationalist Centre Party for which he won 135.000 votes during the European elections in 1984 and Centre Democrats and who in the '90s co-founded the Dutch Block. In 1990 he was elected in the city council of Schiedam...

, Ton Steemers en Hans Lindenburg, modeled on the Flemish Block and later taken over by Wim Vreeswijk, who became council member

City council

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 in Utrecht.

The party was founded in 1992. It had a seat in the municipal council of Utrecht

Utrecht (city)

Utrecht city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, and is the fourth largest city of the Netherlands with a population of 312,634 on 1 Jan 2011.Utrecht's ancient city centre features...

 from 1994 to 2000, where Wim Vreeswijk was elected. From 1994 to 1997 it also had a seat in Almelo

Almelo

Almelo is a municipality and a city in the eastern Netherlands. The main population centres in the town are Aadorp, Almelo, Mariaparochie and Bornerbroek....

. The elected councillor there, Henry Oudendijk, was originally a member of Centrum Democraten, but changed parties after two months; in March 1997 he left Nederlands Blok and continued as an independent member.