Is Party for Freedom left wing or right wing?

On economic organisation Party for Freedom scores +01 on a scale from −10 (common ownership) to +10 (private property and markets). On social and cultural order it scores +08. A single left–right figure combines these and four further measurements that move independently, which is why the atlas reports six.

Is Party for Freedom authoritarian?

On the organisation of power, which measures whether authority is dispersed among institutions that can stop each other or concentrated in a single centre, Party for Freedom scores +04. Formally has a single member; parliamentary in method, with an explicitly majoritarian conception of rights.

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Party for Freedom

PVV · 2006– · Netherlands · Radical Right Populist · Electoral party · coding confidence medium

+01ECmarket

+08CUtraditional

+04AUmonist

+02SCcentral

+07IDascriptive

−02CHlawful

Each axis runs from −10 to +10, with zero a genuine mixed or balanced position rather than an absence of opinion. A score describes a stated position and a governing record; it is not a judgement of merit. What each score means →

Core principles

Restriction of Islam and immigration, national sovereignty, protection of Dutch welfare and health care.

Economic model

Defends pensions and health spending, opposes EU transfers, mixed on tax.

Organisation of powers

Formally has a single member; parliamentary in method, with an explicitly majoritarian conception of rights.

Reading note

Combines an unusually high exclusion score with a mildly left economic profile — the standard 'welfare chauvinism' pattern.

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The evidence for every score

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EC · Economic organisation · scored +01

Coded +1: defends pensions and health spending while opposing EU transfers.

Programme textProgramme commitments to lower the pension age and reduce health insurance excess.

CU · Social and cultural order · scored +08

Coded +8: opposition to Islam is the party's founding and organising commitment.

Programme textProgramme has included closing mosques and Islamic schools and banning the Quran.

AU · Organisation of power · scored +04

Coded +4: parliamentary, with an explicitly majoritarian conception of rights.

Documented act or statuteThe party has exactly one member, its founder, which removes internal accountability.

SC · Scale of decision · scored +02

Coded +2: national sovereignty with a proposed EU exit.

Programme textProgramme commitments to a referendum on Dutch EU membership.

ID · Rule of membership · scored +07

Coded +9: an asylum freeze and the strictest admission regime proposed in Dutch politics.

Programme textThe 2023 programme proposed an asylum stop and withdrawal from the EU asylum framework.

CH · Method and tempo · scored −02

Coded −2: entirely parliamentary, entering government in 2024.

Documented act or statuteSupported and then joined a coalition after winning the 2023 election.

Scores that have been revised

ID +09 → +07Confessional in target rather than ancestral: Dutch citizenship itself is not contested by the programme. The highest score in the dataset was not supportable.

Nearest organisations by measured distance

Straight-line separation across all six axes, out of a maximum of 49.0. Proximity means similarity of stated position, not endorsement and not resemblance in outcome.

Countries

Netherlands

Cite this page

Scores are revised on evidence, so a citation should carry the version it refers to. Version 4.3.1 is current; the revision log records every change.

McGrath, K. (2026). Party for Freedom. The Political Atlas, version 4.2. https://thepoliticalatlas.com/organisations/pvv/ (accessed 2026-08-01).

Free to quote and reproduce with attribution. This is a synthesis rather than a peer-reviewed dataset — where an authoritative figure is needed, cite the Chapel Hill Expert Survey, the Manifesto Project or V-Dem.