Jeroen Lenaers | |
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Vice-Chair of the European People's Party in the European Parliament | |
Assumed office 21 February 2024 | |
Chair | |
Serving alongside | |
Role | Chief whip |
Preceded by | |
Member of the European Parliament | |
Assumed office 1 July 2014 | |
Constituency | Netherlands |
Personal details | |
Born | Stramproy,Netherlands | 29 April 1984
Political party | Dutch Christian Democratic Appeal EU European People's Party |
Alma mater | Maastricht University |
Website | www |
Jeroen Lenaers (born 29 April 1984) is a Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from the Netherlands. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Appeal,part of the European People's Party.
Lenaers previously worked as a policy assistant to Ria Oomen-Ruijten,then Member of the European Parliament for the CDA.
Lenaers was raised in Limburg by his Belgian mother and Dutch father. [1] He studied European Studies at Maastricht University between 2003 and 2008.
Lenaers was second on the CDA candidate list for the 2014 European Parliament election. He was elected through preference votes. [2]
A member of the European People's Party Group,Lenaers first served on the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs from 2014 until 2019 before moving to the Committee on Civil Liberties,Justice and Home Affairs. In this capacity,he was the Parliament's rapporteur on legislation creating the European Labour Authority (ELA) in 2019. [3] In 2020,he became his parliamentary group's coordinator on the committee [4] and its spokesperson for justice and home affairs. [5] Also in 2020,he also joined the Special Committee on Foreign Interference in all Democratic Processes in the European Union. [6] Since 2021,he has been part of the Parliament's delegation to the Conference on the Future of Europe. [7]
In addition to his committee assignments,Lenaers held the position of vice-chairman of the Parliament's delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) from 2014 until 2019. Since 2019,he has been part of the delegations for relations with the Mashreq countries and the delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean.[ citation needed ] He is also a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights [8] and the European Parliament Intergroup on Trade Unions. [9]
In February 2024,Esther de Lange,the CDA's delegation leader in the European Parliament,stepped down. Lenaers succeeded her in this position as well as in the role of vice chair of the European People's Party Group. [10] [11] [12] He was re-elected in June 2024 as the CDA's third candidate,when the party won three seats. [13] Tom Berendsen subsequently took over the position of delegation leader. [11]
Year | Body | Party | Pos. | Votes | Result | Ref. | ||
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Party seats | Individual | |||||||
2014 | European Parliament | Christian Democratic Appeal | 2 | 36,428 | 5 | Won | [14] | |
2019 | European Parliament | Christian Democratic Appeal | 2 | 50,121 | 4 | Won | ||
2024 | European Parliament | Christian Democratic Appeal | 3 | 55,781 | 3 | Won | [13] |
Lenaers is married since 2019 and has two children.
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