Loek van Wely is a Dutch chess player and politician. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1993,and was rated among the world's top ten in 2001 with a rating of 2714. In March 2019,he was elected to the Dutch Senate for the party Forum for Democracy;however,on 8 December 2020 he switched his party allegiance to the van Pareren group,which is now affiliated with the JA21 party.
Theo Upt Hiddema is a Dutch lawyer,media personality and politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives from 2017 to 2020. A member of Forum for Democracy (FvD),he became a member of the Senate in 2021 following the resignation of Nicki Pouw-Verweij.
Thierry Henri Philippe Baudet is a Dutch politician,academic and author. He is the founder and leader of Forum for Democracy (FvD),and has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2017. He also serves as the party's parliamentary leader. He is a controversial politician due to his political views.
Paul Bernard Cliteur is a Dutch professor of jurisprudence at Leiden University,as well as a politician,philosopher,writer,publicist and columnist. He is known for his conservative perspective,his atheism,republicanism and efforts for animal rights. He is a member of De Vrije Gedachte. Since 2015,Cliteur is a member of the Dutch political party Forum voor Democratie,where he is chairman of the advisory board and the party's official think tank. In 2019 he was elected to be parliamentary group leader for Forum voor Democratie in the Dutch Senate.
Ben Swagerman is a Dutch politician and former prosecutor. Swagerman was a member of the Senate for the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy between June 2011 and June 2015 and served once more from November 2015 to July 2016. He has been chair of the BOA-platform since 1 January 2020.
The Forum for Democracy is a conservative and right-wing populist Eurosceptic political party in the Netherlands that was initially founded as a think tank by Thierry Baudet and Henk Otten in 2016. The party first participated in elections in the 2017 general election,winning two seats in the House of Representatives. In the 2019 provincial elections,it won the most seats out of any party.
Provincial elections were held in the Netherlands on 20 March 2019. Eligible voters elected the members of the Provincial States in the twelve provinces of the Netherlands. The elections were held on the same day as the 2019 Dutch water boards elections and,in the Caribbean Netherlands,island council elections.
The Otten Group is a political party in the Netherlands. It was formed following an internal conflict between Henk Otten,former treasurer and board member of Forum for Democracy (FvD),and its leader Thierry Baudet. The party currently has two seats in the Senate.
Hugo A. Berkhout is a Dutch currency specialist and politician. He has been a member of the Senate since October 2020. There,he represented the conservative and right-wing populist party Forum for Democracy until he stepped out of the party the following month amidst an internal crisis. He later joined the splinter party JA21.
Wybren Ridley van Haga is a Dutch politician and engineer who has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2017. He was initially elected as a member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy,but was expelled from the party in 2019,causing the third Rutte cabinet to lose its parliamentary majority. Van Haga subsequently sat as an independent MP before joining Thierry Baudet's Forum for Democracy party,where he was placed second on the party list in the 2021 election. He has since quit Forum for Democracy and created his own political party Belang van Nederland.
Robert Jan P. Baljeu is a Dutch politician,who served as a temporary member of the Senate and has been occupying a seat in the States of North Holland since 2019. After he was expelled from the right-wing populist party Forum for Democracy (FvD) shortly after his election,he became a member of the splinter party Group Otten.
JA21 is a political party in the Netherlands,which is currently active in the Senate as the Nanninga Group. It was founded in December 2020 by Joost Eerdmans and Annabel Nanninga after leaving Forum for Democracy on 26 November 2020. The party participated in the general election on 17 March 2021.
Olaf RenéEphraim is a Dutch investment banker and politician. He worked for the banks MeesPierson and Fortis before joining the conservative and right-wing populist party Forum for Democracy (FvD). Ephraim served as the party's treasurer and was elected to the House of Representatives in the 2021 general election. He left Forum for Democracy in May 2021 and joined Wybren van Haga's new political party Belang van Nederland (BVNL).
Pepijn van Houwelingen is a Dutch politician,who has been serving as a member of the House of Representatives since the 2021 general election. He is a member of the conservative populist party Forum for Democracy (FvD). Van Houwelingen holds a doctorate and has worked for the Netherlands Institute for Social Research for a decade.
Frederik J.H. "Freek" Jansen is a Dutch politician of the conservative populist party Forum for Democracy (FvD). He serves as a member of the House of Representatives and was the chair of the FvD's youth wing.
Simone Kerseboom is a Dutch politician of the conservative populist party Forum for Democracy (FvD). She has been a member of the House of Representatives since the 2021 general election and a member of the States of Limburg since 2019. Kerseboom lived in South Africa for about twenty years and holds a doctorate from Rhodes University.
Eva Vlaardingerbroek is a Dutch opinion maker,host and former politician for the party Forum for Democracy.
Johan Dessing is a Dutch politician and a member of the Senate for the Forum for Democracy party.
Toine Beukering is a Dutch politician and a member of the Senate. He was originally affiliated to the Forum for Democracy party but switched to JA21.
Lennart van der Linden is a Dutch politician and a member of the Senate of the Netherlands.
