It also promotes the building of a Dutch slavery museum and it hopes to abolish the black minstrel character called Zwarte Piet, or Black Pete, who appears in Dutch winter holiday celebrations with Sinterklaas, or a kind of Dutch Santa Claus.

Denk was founded in 2014 when two members of the Labor party who have Turkish origins, Tunahan Kuzu and Selcuk Ozturk, left Labor in a dispute over surveillance of Muslims. They continue to hold seats in Parliament, and will do so until elections in 2017.

The Denk party has already broken the threshold of 1,000 members, making it eligible for about 165,000 euros a year ($183,000) in state subsidies.

Denk hopes to tap the significant population of the Netherlands with immigrant origins, estimated at about one million in a nation of 17 million people. According to the Dutch central bureau of statistics, about 4.4 percent of Dutch citizens have a Moroccan background and 3.5 percent are of Turkish origin.

The party’s founders have been criticized as being “puppets” of President for Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, but they have taken pains to expand the party’s base by enlisting important members from minority groups in the Netherlands.

In November, a former Miss Netherlands, Tatjana Maul, whose mother was an immigrant from Macedonia and whose father was Polish and Dutch, became Denk’s chief communications officer.

The biggest lift to the party’s profile came in May, when the Dutch TV host Sylvana Simons, a dancer and singer born in Suriname, announced that she was joining the Denk party campaign for seats in Parliament. In televised interviews, she said she joined because she felt racism had taken on “dangerous” levels in the Netherlands, which she also said was “in denial” about its colonial legacy and its role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.