Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A 1982 an zabe shi a majalisar wakilai. Ya karɓi jagorancin ƙungiyar VVD daga Frits Bolkestein a 1998. Don babban zaben Dutch na 2002 shi ne lijsttrekker (babban dan takara), Dijkstal da Ad Melkert shugaban jam'iyyar na jam'iyyar Labour sun kasance masu gaba da zama Firayim Minista na gaba, amma zuwan Pim Fortuyn na Livable Netherlands (LN) da kuma daga baya Pim Fortuyn List (LPF), ya juya kuri'un. Fortuyn ya zargi matsalolin da ke cikin kasar a kan majalisar ministocin Purple (wanda duka Dijkstal da Melkert suka yi aiki a matsayin ministoci). Fortuyn ya nuna Dijkstal da Melkert a matsayin jami'ai biyu waɗanda ba su fahimci ji da matsaloli a tsakanin jama'a ba. Bayan yaƙin neman zaɓe mai zafi kwanaki kaɗan kafin zaɓen, aka kashe Fortuyn
a cikin Hilversum. Jam'iyyar Jama'a don 'Yanci da Demokradiyya ta sha wahala sosai a zaben da ta rasa kujeru goma sha huɗu, Dijkstal ya karɓi alhakin rashin nasarar kuma a jere ya bar siyasar ƙasa. Ya yi murabus a matsayin Shugaban Jam'iyyar Jama'a don 'Yanci da Demokradiyya da Shugaban Majalisar Dokoki na Jam'iyyar Jama'a don' Yanci da Demokradiyya a Majalisar Wakilai a ranar 16 ga Mayu 2002 kuma ya ba da kujerarsa a Majalisar Wakilai a ranar 1 ga Satumba 2002. Amma lokacin da tsohuwar jam'iyyarsa ta fara ɗaukar matsayi mai ƙarfi game da 'allochtonen' (baƙi da yaransu) ya haɗu tare da tsoffin 'yan siyasa daga wasu jam'iyyun jam'iyyu da yawa don nuna rashin amincewa, don yin ƙoƙari don samun al'umma mai haƙuri, a ƙarƙashin sunan "Een Land Een Samenleving" ('Wata Ƙasa Daya Society).