Related Research Articles
The House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral parliament of the Netherlands, the States General, the other one being the Senate. It has 150 seats, which are filled through elections using party-list proportional representation. Generally, the house is located in the Binnenhof in The Hague, however, it has temporarily moved to the former building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Bezuidenhoutseweg 67 in The Hague while the Binnenhof is being renovated.
Mark Rutte is a Dutch politician who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands between 2010 and 2024. Following his departure from national politics, Rutte will take up the post of NATO Secretary-General in October 2024. Rutte was the leader of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) from 2006 through 2023.
Gerardina Alida "Gerdi" Verbeet is a retired Dutch politician and political consultant who served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 6 December 2006 to 19 September 2012. A member of the Labour Party (PvdA), she is the second officeholder elected independently by the House of Representatives after her predecessor Frans Weisglas. She served as a member of the House of Representatives from 26 July 2002 to 19 September 2012 and previously from 11 December 2001 until 22 May 2002.
Emma Eleonora (Esmé) Wiegman-van Meppelen Scheppink is a former Dutch politician. As a member of the ChristianUnion (ChristenUnie) she was an MP from 1 March 2007 to 19 September 2012. She focused on matters of the European Union, public health, welfare, sports, spatial planning and natural environment.
Esther Ouwehand is a Dutch politician and former marketing manager serving as leader of the Party for the Animals and its parliamentary group in the House of Representatives since 2019. She has been a member of the House of Representatives since the 2006 election with two interruptions.
Elbert Dijkgraaf is a Dutch economist and politician of the Reformed Political Party (SGP). He is professor at the Erasmus School of Economics where he holds the chair "Empirical economics of the public sector". He also is fellow of the Tinbergen Institute.
Edith Ingeborg Schippers is a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and businesswoman who served as President of DSM Netherlands between 2019 and 2023.
Ineke Dezentjé Hamming-Bluemink is a former Dutch politician. As a member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) she was elected to the House of Representatives from 3 June 2003 to 9 November 2011. She focused on matters linked to the Algemene Ouderdomswet and other pensions affairs. She was succeeded by Ybeltje Berckmoes-Duindam when she resigned to become corporate director of employers' organization FME-CWM. At FME-CWM, she succeeded her party colleague Jan Kamminga as the chairperson. She was appointed on November 14, 2011 and stepped down as president in 2021. From April 1, 2014, to March 31, 2016, Dezentjé Hamming-Bluemink served as an employer member of the Social and Economic Council representing VNO-NCW.
Frans Hubertus Henricus Weekers is a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and lawyer.
Yde Johan "Eddy" van Hijum is a Dutch politician who has served as the minister of social affairs and employment and third deputy prime minister in the Schoof cabinet since 2024.
Pieter Herman Omtzigt is a Dutch politician who has served as a member of the House of Representatives since 2003 apart from a short interruption between June and October 2010. He was member of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), but left in 2021 and continued as independent. In August 2023, he founded a new party called New Social Contract, its name taken from his 2021 manifesto. Three months later, his party won 20 out of 150 seats in the 2023 Dutch general election.
Vera Alida Bergkamp is a retired Dutch politician. A member of the Democrats 66 (D66) party, she served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 7 April 2021 and 5 December 2023. She was a member of the House of Representatives between 20 September 2012 and 5 December 2023.
Maria Cornelia Gezina "Mona" Keijzer is a Dutch politician and former civil servant who is the minister of housing and spatial planning since 2024. A member of the Farmer–Citizen Movement, she won a seat in the House of Representatives in the 2023 Dutch general election.
Marjolein Hillegonda Monica Faber-van de Klashorst is a Dutch politician for the right-wing populist Party for Freedom (PVV), who has served as Minister of Asylum and Migration in the Schoof cabinet since July 2024. Previously, she was a member of the Provincial Council of Gelderland (2011–2023), of the Senate (2014–2023), and of the House of Representatives (2023–2024).
Sophia Theodora Monique "Sophie" Hermans is a Dutch politician currently serving as Second Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands and Minister of Climate and Green Growth in the Schoof cabinet. Hermans previously served as a member of the House of Representatives representing People's Party for Freedom and Democracy between 2017 and 2024.
Barbara Catharina Kathmann is a Dutch politician, serving as a member of the House of Representatives since 2021. She is a member of the Labour Party (PvdA). Before being elected to the House, she served as a municipal councilor and alderwoman in her hometown Rotterdam. Kathmann has also worked in media and at two nonprofit organizations.
Folkert Lútsen Idsinga is a Dutch tax lawyer and politician, who has served as State Secretary for Tax Affairs and the Tax Administration since July 2024. He was a partner at Baker McKenzie, and he was elected to the House of Representatives in the 2021 general election on behalf of the conservative liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). Idsinga left the House in September 2023 to switch to New Social Contract (NSC), and he was re-elected in 2023.
Elisabeth Marij "Lisa" Westerveld is a Dutch politician serving as a member of GroenLinks in the House of Representatives of the Netherlands since 2017. Between 2014 and 2017 she was a member of the municipality council of Nijmegen.
Robert Johannes Hendrikus Hermanus Rep is a Dutch politician for the Party for Freedom. He has been a member of the House of Representatives since 4 July 2024.
References
- ↑ "Biography, education and career of Folkert Thiadens". www.houseofrepresentatives.nl. Retrieved 2024-07-16.
- ↑ "Four new PVV MPs will replace planned Cabinet members | NL Times". nltimes.nl. Retrieved 2024-07-16.
