Alexander Kops | |
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![]() Kops in 2015 | |
Member of the House of Representatives | |
Assumed office 23 March 2017 | |
Member of the States of Overijssel | |
In office 26 March 2015 –12 April 2017 | |
Member of the Senate | |
In office 8 July 2014 –23 March 2017 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Leidschendam,Netherlands | 23 November 1984
Political party | Party for Freedom |
Alexander Kops (born 23 November 1984) is a Dutch politician and former teacher serving as a member of the House of Representatives since 2017. A member of the Party for Freedom (PVV),a nationalist, [1] right-wing populist [1] political party in the Netherlands. He previously was a member of the Senate from 2014 to 2017.
Kops was born on 23 November 1984 in Leidschendam. [2] In 2003,he received his propaedeutics in teacher education (German language teaching) at the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. Kops then went to the Leiden University,where he obtained an MA degree in German language and culture in 2009. From 2008 to 2010,he worked as a German teacher at a high school in Leiderdorp. [2] In the 2010 general election,he stood for the Party for Freedom,but as he was number 27 on the list he was not chosen. His contract at the high school was not renewed. [2] In early 2011 he started as a policy worker for the Party for Freedom at the European Parliament. On 1 July 2014 he ended his contract there;on 8 July he was made member of the Senate. [2] In the Senate he succeeded Marcel de Graaff,who had been elected to the European Parliament. [3]
In the 2015 Senate election he held place fourteen on the Party for Freedom list,the party gained nine seats and Kops was elected on the base of preference votes. [4] He gained the most votes of any Party for Freedom candidate. [5] From 26 March 2015 until 12 April 2017 Kops concurrently served in the States of Overijssel. [2] In the 2017 general election,he held place nineteen on the party's list. He was elected to the House of Representatives and subsequently resigned from the Senate. He took up his seat on 23 March 2017. [2] He received a third House term in November 2023,and he has since served as the PVV's spokesperson for energy and climate. [6]
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Year | Body | Party | Pos. | Votes | Result | Ref. | ||
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Party seats | Individual | |||||||
2010 | House of Representatives | Party for Freedom | 27 | 319 | 24 | Lost | [7] | |
2012 | House of Representatives | Party for Freedom | 27 | 229 | 15 | Lost | [8] | |
2017 | House of Representatives | Party for Freedom | 19 | 679 | 20 | Won | [9] | |
2021 | House of Representatives | Party for Freedom | 6 | 1,128 | 17 | Won | [10] | |
2023 | House of Representatives | Party for Freedom | 11 | 845 | 37 | Won | [11] |
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