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.
The Party for the Animals is a political party in the Netherlands. Among its main goals are animal rights and animal welfare.
Tjitske Siderius is a Dutch politician.
Jkvr. Corinne Elisabeth de Jonge van Ellemeet is a Dutch politician.
General elections were held in the Netherlands from 15 to 17 March 2021 to elect all 150 members of the House of Representatives. Following the elections and lengthy coalition formation talks,the sitting government remained in power.
Tom J.H. van den Nieuwenhuijzen-Wittens is a Dutch politician,who held a seat in the House of Representatives. He is a member of the green political party GroenLinks.
Martijn N. Bolkestein is a Dutch politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives between July 2020 and March 2021. He is a member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).
Kauthar Bouchallikht is a Dutch politician,climate activist and publicist. She was elected to the House of Representatives in the 2021 general election on behalf of the green political party GroenLinks. Bouchallikht is the first member of parliament in Dutch parliamentary history to wear a hijab. She is also known for her activism in the climate movement.
Leonie Vestering is a Dutch politician of the Party for the Animals (PvdD). She campaigned against circus animals,and she was a member of the States of Flevoland and the Almere municipal council. Vestering was elected to the House of Representatives in 2021 and resigned in September 2023 in response to a conflict within her party.
Lisa Mianti van Ginneken is a Dutch politician of the social liberal party Democrats 66 (D66). She worked as a software developer and later gave organizational trainings. She started serving as chair of the organization Transvisie in 2017 and became a member of parliament after the 2021 general election. Van Ginneken is the first transgender person to be elected into the Dutch House of Representatives,where she is her party's spokesperson for IT,privacy,family law,and mobility.
Senna Maatoug is a Dutch civil servant and politician,who has been a member of the House of Representatives since the 2021 general election. She is a member of the green political party GroenLinks.
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.
Stephan Ruben Tobias van Baarle is a Dutch politician. A member of the minority interest party DENK,he served on the Rotterdam municipal council from 2018 to 2022. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 2021 and succeeded Farid Azarkan as DENK's parliamentary leader two years later.
A process of cabinet formation took place following the 2021 Dutch general election,leading to the formation of the Fourth Rutte cabinet in 2022. The coalition consisted of People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD),Democrats 66 (D66),Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) and Christian Union (CU),the same parties that formed the preceding Third Rutte cabinet. At 299 days,it was the longest formation in Dutch history.
Adriaan Harry John "Daan" de Kort is a Dutch politician of the conservative liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). Born in Veldhoven,he served on that town's municipal council starting in 2014,and he became an alderman four years later. He was elected to the House of Representatives in the 2021 Dutch general election.
Fonda Sahla is a Dutch politician of the social liberal party Democrats 66 (D66). She has served as a member of the House of Representatives since October 2021,initially as the temporary replacement of Rens Raemakers but later as the successor of Rob Jetten. Sahla's involvement in her local community led her to become politically active. She was elected to The Hague's municipal council in 2018 and participated in the March 2021 general election but was not directly elected.
Suzanne Caroline Kröger is a Dutch politician of the political party GroenLinks. Since October 2021,she serves as member of the House of Representatives as replacement of Bart Snels. She also served as member of the House of Representatives between 23 March 2017 and 31 March 2021.
An election to the Dutch Senate was held on 30 May 2023. The 75 members of the Senate were elected by members of the provincial councils and electoral colleges elected two months earlier in provincial and electoral college elections.
GroenLinks–PvdA,alternatively PvdA–GroenLinks,or GreenLeft-Labour in English,is an alliance between GroenLinks (GL) and the Labour Party (PvdA) in the Netherlands. The political alliance was founded at the national level by party leaders Lilianne Ploumen and Jesse Klaver during the 2021–2022 Dutch cabinet formation,whereas local alliances between the two parties had already been formed in prior years. The two parties have formed a joint parliamentary group in the Provincial Council of Zeeland since 29 March 2023,before they formed a joint group in the Senate following the 2023 Dutch Senate election,and formed a joint group in the House of Representatives on 27 October 2023.
