Joost Eerdmans
| Joost Eerdmans | |
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| chair of the parliamentary party | |
| In office 2002–2006 |
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| Born | 9 January 1971 Harderwijk, Netherlands |
| Political party | Eén NL |
| Website | www.joost-eerdmans.nl |
Bernard Johannes (Joost) Eerdmans (Harderwijk, 9 January 1971) is a politician in the Netherlands, and member of the Eén NL party.
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[edit] Personal life
Eerdmans studied Management Science at the Erasmus Universiteit in Rotterdam. In 1995 he received his masters degree, having undertaken postgraduate studies at the Public administration School for Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana in 1993.[1]
Eerdmans married in The Hague on 3 June 2006.
[edit] Political career
After working for some time on projects for the Christen-Democratisch Appèl, Eerdmans worked at the Dutch Ministry of Justice from 1997 until 1999. In 1999 he became secretary to Ivo Opstelten, the mayor of Rotterdam.[1]
[edit] Pim Fortuyn List
In 2002 Eerdmans contacted Pim Fortuyn, who at that time was busy assembling a list of candidates for his new political party, Pim Fortuyn List (LPF). Eerdmans is placed 19th on the list and after the 2002 elections he became a member of the House of Representatives, while his party joined the First Balkenende cabinet.
After the fall of the cabinet, new elections were called. This time the LPF won only 8 seats, but since Eerdmans was second on the list he remained in Parliament. He was removed from the party's parliamentary faction after it was definitively announced that Eerdmans would be on the Eén NL candidate list for the 2006 elections.
[edit] One NL
For the Dutch general election, 2006, Eerdmans split with the LPF to form a new political party called One NL with Marco Pastors of Leefbaar Rotterdam.[2] After the dismal result of One NL in the 2006 elections, Eerdmans left Dutch politics.[3]
[edit] Post-political career
Since leaving politics, Eerdmans has been a television host on the Dutch channel Het Gesprek.
[edit] References
- ^ a b (Dutch) "Drs. B.J. Eerdmans". Parlement & Politiek. http://www.parlement.com/9291000/biof/02365.
- ^ Fortuyn successors launch party for national poll, Expatica, August 23, 2006
- ^ (Dutch)"Joost Eerdmans verlaat politiek". Trouw. 2006-11-22. http://www.trouw.nl/laatstenieuws/laatstenieuws/article552362.ece/Joost_Eerdmans_verlaat_politiek.
