Pieter Litjens

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Pieter Litjens
Member of the House of Representatives (Netherlands)
Incumbent
Assumed office September 20, 2012
Mayor of Aalsmeer
In office August 15, 2007 – September 20, 2012
Preceded by	Joost Hoffscholte
Succeeded by	Theo van Eijk
Personal details
Born	Pieter Jan Marie Litjens (1968-05-17) May 17, 1968 Utrecht, Netherlands
Nationality	Dutch
Political party	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
Spouse(s)	Saskia Litjens
Residence	Kudelstaart, Netherlands
Alma mater	University of Amsterdam (MA in political science)
Occupation	Politician Civil servant Political consultant

Pieter Jan Marie Litjens (born May 17, 1968) is a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). He has been a member of the House of Representatives since September 20, 2012. He previously served as mayor of Aalsmeer from August 15, 2007 to September 20, 2012.

He studied French at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam from 1988 to 1991, when he changed majors to political science at the University of Amsterdam and graduated in 1996 with a Master of Arts degree.

He worked for the VNO-NCW from 1996 to 1999 when he became the political advisor of the alderman for Economic Affairs of Amsterdam, serving until 2002 when he became an alderman for the Amsterdam-Zuidoost borough, dealing with finance, economic affairs, sports and recreation, environmental management and personnel and organization. He stepped down in 2006 and was elected mayor of Aalsmeer the following year, taking office on August 15, 2007.

He was candidate for the House of Representatives during the Dutch general election of 2012.^[1] He was elected on September 12, 2012 and left mayoralty of Aalsmeer the same day he has taken office as an MP.^[2]

References

(Dutch) Parlement.com biography

↑ (Dutch) VVD'er Pieter Litjens mogelijk naar Tweede Kamer, Nieuwsover.nl, May 29, 2012
↑ (Dutch) VVD landelijk én in Aalsmeer grootste; Litjens naar Tweede Kamer, Aalsmeer.nl, September 18, 2012

Political offices
Preceded by Joost Hoffscholte	Mayor of Aalsmeer 2007-2012	Succeeded by Theo van Eijk

v t e Current Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands<br/ >2012 - present<br/ >Situation on 12 February 2014

50PLUS<br/ >(50+ - 2)	Klein Baay-Timmerman

Christian<br/ >Democratic Appeal<br/ >(CDA - 13)	Bruins Slot Geurts Van Haersma Buma Heerma Van Hijum Keijzer Knops Ag. Mulder Omtzigt Oskam Rog De Rouwe Van Toorenburg

ChristianUnion<br/ >(CU - 5)	Dik-Faber Schouten Segers Slob Voordewind

Democrats 66<br/ >(D66 - 12)	Bergkamp Berndsen P. Dijkstra Hachchi Koolmees Van Meenen Pechtold Schouw Sjoerdsma Van Veldhoven Verhoeven Van Weyenberg

GreenLeft<br/ >(GL - 4)	Klaver Van Ojik Van Tongeren Voortman

Independent<br/ >(IND - 1)	Bontes

Labour Party<br/ >(PvdA - 38)	Arib Bouwmeester Çegerek Van Dam Van Dekken O. Van Dijk Dikkers Eijsink Fokke Groot Günal-Gezer Hamer Hoogland Jacobi Jadnanansing Kerstens Kuiken Kuzu Van Laar Maij Marcouch Mohandis Monasch Nijboer Oosenbrug Öztürk Rebel-Volp Recourt Samsom Servaes Tanamal Vermeij J. Vos M. Vos De Vries Wolbert Ypma Yücel

Party for the Animals<br/ >(PvdD - 2)	Ouwehand Thieme

Party for Freedom<br/ >(PVV - 14)	Agema Beertema Bosma Van Dijck Fritsma De Graaf Graus Helder Van Klaveren Klever Madlener De Roon Van Vliet Wilders

People's Party for<br/ >Freedom and Democracy<br/ >(VVD - 41)	Azmani Berckmoes-Duindam De Boer Bosman Ten Broeke Van der Burg De Caluwé Dijkhoff R. Dijkstra Duisenberg Elias Harbers Heerema Leegte De Liefde Van der Linde Litjens Lodders Lucas Van Miltenburg (President) Moors Mulder Neppérus Van Nieuwenhuizen Van Oosten Potters A. Rutte Schut-Welkzijn Van der Steur Straus Taverne Tellegen Van Veen Venrooy-van Ark Verheijen Visser De Vries Vuijk Van 't Wout Ziengs Zijlstra

Reformed Political Party<br/ >(SGP - 3)	Bisschop Dijkgraaf Van der Staaij

Socialist Party<br/ >(SP - 15)	Bashir Van Bommel J. Van Dijk Van Gerven Gesthuizen Jansen Karabulut Kooiman Leijten Merkies Van Raak Roemer Smaling (Smits) Ulenbelt De Wit

Bold signifies the parliamentary group leader<br/ > Brackets () signifies a temporary absent member<br/ > Italics signifies a temporary member<br/ ><br/ > See also: Current MPs of the Senate of the Netherlands

Persondata
Name	Litjens, Pieter
Alternative names	Litjens, Pieter Jan Marie
Short description	Dutch politician
Date of birth	May 17, 1968
Place of birth	Utrecht, Netherlands
Date of death
Place of death

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