Tim van de Molen

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Tim van de Molen
MP
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van de Molen in 2023
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Waikato
Assumed office
23 September 2017
YearsTermElectorateListParty
2017 2020 52nd Waikato 66 National
2020 2023 53rd Waikato42 National
2023 present 54th Waikato58 National

At the 2017 general election van de Molen sought to replace Lindsay Tisch, who was retiring, as the National Party candidate in the Waikato electorate. He won the selection and was elected with 61% of the vote. [11] He said that his focuses in his first electorate are improving broadband in rural areas, advancing a Waikato medical school to train rural GPs, and agriculture and transport issues. [10] [12] Van de Molen was comfortably re-elected in the 2020 and 2023 elections. [13] [14]

Van de Molen supporting farmers at the Groundswell Protest, 2021 Tim van de Molen Groundswell Protest.jpg
Van de Molen supporting farmers at the Groundswell Protest, 2021

In 2018, van de Molen took on the role of the National Party's third whip. [15] He has been the National Party opposition spokesperson for building and construction, biosecurity, animal welfare, oceans and fisheries, defence, horticulture, veterans, and ACC. Between 2017 and 2023, van de Molen served on the primary production and the transport and infrastructure select committees. Since 2023, he has chaired the committee on foreign affairs, defence and trade. [16]

On 1 August 2023 he was referred to the privileges committee following allegations he had threatened fellow MP Shanan Halbert following a select committee hearing. [17] On 24 August 2023, the committee's report concluded that he had threatened Halbert, saying that his conduct was "aggressive in the sense of being hostile, unprofessional and... with an element that was objectively threatening, but not in the sense of physical violence". Van de Molen was found in contempt of Parliament and censured; in addition, National leader Christopher Luxon removed him from his portfolios. Van de Molen accepted the committee's findings and issued a public apology. [18] [19] [20]

Views and positions

Euthanasia

Van de Molen voted in favour of the final reading for the End of Life Choice Bill in 2019, unlike most of his National MP colleagues. [21]

Abortion

He voted in favour of the first and second readings of the Abortion Legislation Bill of 2019, [22] [23] but against its third, final reading. [24]

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