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https://www.erasmusmagazine.nl/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2022/05/06110636/Pim-Fortuyn-1988-Levien-Willemse-scaled-e1651661942736-1.jpg?image-crop-positioner-ts=17661392841706870Friday marks the twentieth anniversary of Pim Fortuyn’s death. In Groningen, the sociologist and entrepreneur could not become a professor. Perhaps he would have more luck in Rotterdam? In 1988, Quod Novum journalist Leo Mudde realised that this charismatic dandy had something to say. This was the first and only interview in the magazine that preceded Erasmus Magazine. At that time, Fortuyn was more known as a controversial and radical Marxist. But he had charisma.