Below is the party list of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) for the 2012 Dutch general election. Chosen candidates are in italics, the lijsttrekker is also in bold. Thirteen candidates have been chosen: the numbers 1 to 12 and 39. Obtained votes are added.
Leeuwarden is a city and municipality in Friesland, Netherlands, with a population of 127,073 (2023). It is the provincial capital and seat of the Provincial Council of Friesland.
The Christian Democratic Appeal is a Christian-democratic and socially conservative political party in the Netherlands. It was originally formed in 1977 from a confederation of the Catholic People's Party, the Anti-Revolutionary Party and the Christian Historical Union; it has participated in all but four of the Dutch cabinets formed since it became a unitary party.
In a governmental system, a party leader acts as the official representative of their political party, either to a legislature or to the electorate. Depending on the country, the individual colloquially referred to as the "leader" of a political party may officially be party chair, secretary, or the highest political office.
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Sybrand van Haersma Buma is a Dutch politician serving as Mayor of Leeuwarden since 2019. Until 2019, he was a member of the House of Representatives from 2002 who also served as the parliamentary leader of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) from 2010 and as the leader of his party from 2012.
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.
The 2012 Christian Democratic Appeal leadership election was called to elect the new Leader of the Christian Democratic Appeal after incumbent Maxime Verhagen announced his retirement from national politics. Verhagen who had been the acting leader of the party since the resignation of Jan Peter Balkenende on 9 June 2010 did not stand for the leadership election. Sybrand van Haersma Buma the Parliamentary leader of the Christian Democratic Appeal in the House of Representatives beat the other candidates in the first round with 51.4% of the votes.
Maria Cornelia Gezina "Mona" Keijzer is a Dutch politician and former civil servant who has served as 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.
Pieter Enneüs Heerma is a Dutch politician. As a member of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) he has been a member of the House of Representatives since 20 September 2012.
Michel Richard Joachim Rog is a Dutch politician and former trade union leader who served as a member of the House of Representatives from 2012 to 2021. A member of Democrats 66 (D66) until 2006, he joined the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) in 2012. He served as alderman in the municipal executive of Haarlem between 2020 and 2021.
Hugo Mattheüs de Jonge is a Dutch politician who served as Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and as Minister for Housing and Spatial Planning, from 2023 and 2022, respectively until 2024, in the Fourth Rutte cabinet. A member of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), he was elected to its leadership in 2020 for the 2021 Dutch general election. He withdrew later that year, citing an impossibility to combine his position as Health Minister in charge of the COVID-19 pandemic efforts with his party leadership.
Events from the year 2019 in the Netherlands.
The 2020 Christian Democratic Appeal leadership election was called to elect the new leader and lead candidate (lijsttrekker) of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) in the run-up to the 2021 Dutch general election.
Bernhardus "Bernhard" van Haersma Buma was a Dutch politician and writer. As politician he was part of Christelijk-Historische Unie (CHU) and later CDA. He was mayor of Workum and Sneek.
Hilde M. Palland, also known as Hilde Palland-Mulder, is a Dutch politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives from 2019 until 2023. A member of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), she was previously elected to the municipal council of Kampen from 2006 to 2018, where she chaired the party group from 2009 onwards. Palland became a parliamentarian upon the resignation of former party leader Sybrand van Haersma Buma. She studied law at the University of Groningen.
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