Electoral history
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| Year | Body | Party | Pos. | Votes | Result | Ref. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party seats | Individual | |||||||
| 2017 | House of Representatives | Democrats 66 | 35 | 834 | 19 | Lost | [7] | |
| 2023 | House of Representatives | Democrats 66 | 9 | 4,264 | 9 | Won | [8] | |
Mpanzu Bamenga | |
|---|---|
| Member of the House of Representatives | |
| Assumed office 6 December 2023 | |
| Municipal councillor of Eindhoven | |
| In office 28 April 2021 –30 March 2022 | |
| In office 3 July 2018 –November 2018 | |
| In office 27 March 2014 –29 March 2018 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | P. Bamenga 12 July 1985 Kinshasa,Zaire (present-day DR Congo) |
| Political party | Democrats 66 |
| Residence(s) | Eindhoven,Netherlands |
| Alma mater | Radboud University (LLM) |
P. "Mpanzu" Bamenga (born 12 July 1985) is a Congolese-born Dutch jurist,human rights activist and politician of the Democrats 66 (D66),who has served as a member of the Dutch House of Representatives since 2023. He previously held a seat in the municipal council of Eindhoven from 2014 to 2018,and from 2021 to 2022. [1]
Bamenga was born in Kinshasa,Zaire (present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo). In 1994,at the age of 8,he fled to the Netherlands with his mother and brother,where he lived as an undocumented refugee for thirteen years. [2] [3] In 2007,he was granted a residence permit by Justice Minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin. [3]
In 2021,Bamenga won an annual prize awarded by the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights for his legal battle against racial profiling by the Royal Marechaussee. [4] [5] On 22 November 2023,he ran in the 2023 general election as the ninth candidate on the D66 list,and was elected into the House of Representatives. [1] He was installed as MP on 6 December 2023,and he became his party's spokesperson for foreign trade,development cooperation,discrimination,integration,infrastructure,and environment. [1] [6]
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| Year | Body | Party | Pos. | Votes | Result | Ref. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party seats | Individual | |||||||
| 2017 | House of Representatives | Democrats 66 | 35 | 834 | 19 | Lost | [7] | |
| 2023 | House of Representatives | Democrats 66 | 9 | 4,264 | 9 | Won | [8] | |
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