[6] In February 1980, some radical NCP members had harassed Moroccan refugees who held a hunger strike at the Moses and Aaron church in Amsterdam.

This was the first time since the Second World War that a party considered to be right-wing extremist had won a seat in parliament.

[8] Conflict soon erupted however, between the party leadership led by Nico Konst and Henk de Wijer, and the parliamentary section, of Janmaat and his assistants.

In 1986 the CP and CD organized a reconciliation meeting in Kedichem, which was turned into a disaster by radical anti-fascists.

A group of these anti-fascist activists set the hotel where the meeting was located on fire, causing several heavy injuries.

[12] They were never able to obtain any seats in national elections since then, and were eventually abrogated in 1998 by a Dutch court, because of the racist and xenophobic statements of its party board at a 1995 meeting.

The party's initial manifesto was titled "not left, not right," and combined right-wing, left-wing and green political positions.