predecessor successor birth_place imagesize nationality party office primeminister birth_date term_start residence birthname image article_title term_end name occupation alma_mater
'' ` first '' ' rita verdonk kampen , netherlands 250px dutch anti appeal -lrb- 1980-2002 -rrb- pim fortuyn list -lrb- 2002-2004 -rrb- revolutionary party for the netherlands -lrb- from 2006 -rrb- party -lrb- for 1980 -rrb- christian democratic member minister for integration & immigration of the house of representatives of the netherlands jan peter balkenende 08 august 1948 january 30 , 2003 july 22 , 2002 zoetermeer , netherlands hilbrand pier anne nawijn hilbrand nawijn -lrb- cropped -rrb- . jpg hilbrand nawijn
 november 30 , 2006 may 27 , 2003 hilbrand nawijn politician civil servant lawyer university of groningen -lrb- ll.m . -rrb-
hilbrand nawijn

hilbrand pier anne nawijn -lrb- born august 8 , 1948 -rrb- is a dutch politician of the party for the netherlands -lrb- pvn -rrb- .
he was minister for integration & immigration from july 22 , 2002 until may 27 , 2003 and later a member of the house of representatives for the pim fortuyn list -lrb- lpf -rrb- .
nawijn was born in kampen .
the son of a burgemeester -lrb- mayor -rrb- , he is a descendant of firmin navin , a french huguenot who had fled to holland in 1696 to escape persecution .
after graduating emelwerda college in emmeloord he studied law at the rijksuniversiteit groningen .
following a long career working for the dutch ministry of justice he was elected in 2002 as a member of the christen-democratisch appèl for the city council of zoetermeer .
nawijn was an early supporter of the openly gay , populist dutch politician pim fortuyn and in 2002 , when fortuyn founded the pim fortuyn list , nawijn earned a place on the list .
despite the assassination of fortuyn by an animal rights activist , which happened days before the election , the lpf emerged with a successful result , thus bringing nawijn into the dutch house of representatives .
he was appointed minister for integration and immigration in the first balkenende cabinet .
due to the instability of the lpf following fortuyn 's assassination , the first balkenende cabinet lasted briefly , leading to early elections in 2003 .
due to nawijn 's controversial conservative positions such as his support of the death penalty , which horrified many people in the netherlands , he was placed at the bottom of the lpf 's electoral list .
this should have made it almost impossible for nawijn to be reelected , however , the same statements which made him so unpopular to the political establishment won him a following among voters .
on election day nawijn received enough individual votes to once again enter the house of representatives .
despite still being a member of the lpf , nawijn often was at odds with the party .
in january 2005 , he left the fragmented lpf with the goal of founding his own political party which conceptually would lean closer towards the ideas of the far-right flemish party vlaams belang .
together with one of the leaders of vlaams belang , filip dewinter , in june 2005 he announced the founding of a think tank during a controversial meeting in the former house of murdered politician pim fortuyn .
marten fortuyn , pim fortuyn 's brother , called this action provocative , and '' `` i had expected otherwise from nawijn . '' ''
the influential dutch magazine elsevier writes : `` according to -lrb- the lpf member of parliament -rrb- varela , it was widely known that pim fortuyn wanted nothing to do with dewinter , who 's party vlaams blok -lrb- resurrected as vlaams belang -rrb- had the previous year been forbidden due to racism . ''
in the dutch municipal elections of 2006 , nawijn managed , with his own new party , to gather 5 out of 39 seats in his hometown zoetermeer .
later that year he entered the 2006 dutch elections with a new party , the partij voor nederland -lrb- `` party for the netherlands '' -rrb- , but obtained no seats .
during his campaign , nawijn voiced his support for accepting cia black sites into the netherlands in an interview in october 2006 in the dutch newspaper spits .
in early 2007 , nawijn participated in the dutch version of `` so you wan na be a popstar ? ''
, broadcast by the dutch commercial tv channel sbs6 , granting him fulfilment of one of his dreams .
he stated that '' `` now that i have left national politics , i can do such things .
an additional advantage is that it will keep me a bit ` in the picture ' '' '' .
as a result of his performances at the talent contest , which were met with public ridicule , nawijn signed up for a five-year contract as a singer .
his first single came out in may 2007 , `` hey jumpen '' , in the jumpstyle genre , and reached # 45 in the dutch single top 100 charts .
in february 2008 he returned to his original career in law .
