After the 1998 election , Janmaat became increasingly worried by legal pressure , believing that the Centre Democrats could become the government 's next target after CP '86 was officially banned in 1998 . He founded the " Conservative Democrats " as a potential successor party in the event that the Centre Democrats was proscribed . The new party contested the 1999 European elections as the '' Lijstverbinding Centrumdemocraten/Conservatieve Democraten '' , a supposed two-party cooperation , where the two names in reality represented the same party . It won only 0.5 % of the vote in the election , a showing widely seen as the last spasm of a dying party . Janmaat 's increasing physical exhaustion only served to exacerbate the situation . Nonetheless , with a new political climate following the September 11 attacks and the rise of Pim Fortuyn , Janmaat sought political rehabilitation in his final years . The reason was that his earlier criminal convictions arose from stating things that had now become accepted
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Centre Democrats (Netherlands)