Hans Janmaat

Major political parties changed their response to Janmaat and his views: rather than actively ignoring him they also started openly addressing the issue of immigration. In 1996 Janmaat married Wil Schuurman. Several attempts were made to reconcile the differences between CP and CD.

He later served as Parliamentary leader of the Centre Democrats in the House of Representatives from September 8 1989 until May 19 1998 when his party lost all its seats. Although he was widely known he was never a major force in the Dutch political landscape partly because of a cordon sanitaire imposed by the Third Lubbers cabinet.