Pieter Mulder
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Dr Pieter Mulder is a South African politician and the leader of the Freedom Front Plus. The son of former cabinet minister Connie Mulder, the young Mulder first worked as a lecturer at the Potchefstroom University, before being promoted to head of the university's communications department. He represented the town of Potchefstroom in Parliament since 1988.
Prior to South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994, Mulder co-founded the Freedom Front with General Constand Viljoen, a former head of the South African Defense Force. During the elections of 1994, the Freedom Front managed to obtain nine seats in the National Assembly. This number was slashed to just four, during the 1999 elections. Viljoen, who acted as leader since the party's founding, retired from politics in 2001 and left Mulder in charge.
In 2004, under Mulder's reign, the Freedom Front absorbed the Conservative Party and the Afrikaner Eenheidsbeweging (Afrikaner Movement for Unity), who lost its only seat in the National Assembly due to floor-crossing. During the elections in the year, the FF+ managed to hold on to its four seats in the National Assembly.
