In the 2002 municipal elections, held on 6 March, Liveable Rotterdam took 35% of the vote in the city of Rotterdam, a city with a high immigrant population. They formed the city's first non-Labour government since the Second World War. In the same month, he released the book De puinhopen van acht jaar Paars ("The Wreckage of eight purple years") criticising the record of the governing coalition. "The Economist" described the rise in support for Fortuyn as a shock for the Dutch political establishment and their traditional system of consensus.