Anti-Islam PVV councillor Cor Bosman, who was thrown out of his party for his ‘Turkish pig’ email, is to retain his seat on Limburg’s provincial council as the only member of his new party, the Party for Quality of Life and Democracy.

Bosman’s email was sent a year ago and called a Labour (PvdA) colleague ‘a piece of sicked-up halal meat made from a Turkish pig’.
When the email came to public attention recently, Bosman was sacked by the PVV, despite his claim the email was meant as sarcasm.
He will continue to support the provincial council from his new party, he told local broadcaster L1 in an interview.
It is customary in Dutch politics for councillors and MPs who leave a political party to remain in the job rather than stand down and let a new representative take over.