Harm Wiersma

He was strongly impressed with Pim Fortuyn and in a 2003 interview compared him to Desiderius Erasmus.

[1] Hence he became one of 26 members of the Pim Fortuyn List elected in 2002 with his main concern being Eastern Europe and sports.

His son Joeri Wiersma who studied Governmentmanagement at the Thorbecke Academy worked as his personal assistant and is named after the film doctor Yuri Zhivago written by Boris Pasternak.

However he left the House of Representatives in the following year, 2003, due to difficulties in his municipality.

(See LPF article for other difficulties that might have played a role) This exit, combined with his being a draughts player, has led to the pun that he is a "Dutch politician with a checkered past."