Tiny Kox

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Tiny Kox

Senate leader - Socialist Party <br/ > Senate of the Netherlands
Incumbent
Assumed office June 10, 2003
Member of the Senate
Incumbent
Assumed office June 10, 2003
Personal details
Born	Martinus Josephus Maria Kox (1953-05-06) May 6, 1953 Zeelst, Netherlands
Nationality	Dutch
Political party	Socialist Party (Socialistische Partij - SP)
Relations	Married
Residence	Tilburg, Netherlands
Alma mater	Tilburg University (LLB)
Occupation	Politician
Website	(Dutch) Socialist Party website

Martinus Josephus Maria "Tiny" Kox (born May 6, 1953 in Zeelst) is a Dutch politician. As a member of the Socialist Party (SP) he has been a member of the Senate as well as Senate leader since June 10, 2003.

Biography

Kox studied law at Tilburg University. From 1975 to 1978 he worked in Tilburg law centre, in 1978 at the municipality of Oosterhout, and from 1978 to 1982 again he was a member of the Tilburg law centre. From 1981 to 1994 he was editor-in-chief of Tribune, SP's member party magazine, and from 1982 to 1999 he was SP faction leader of the municipal council of Tilburg. Furthermore he has been exercising several jobs in the party executive.

Since June 2003 Kox has been a member of the Senate. He is also chairman of the Party of the European Left in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and a member employee of SP's policy institute.

At the general elections of 2006 Kox was elected as a member in the House of Representatives but did not take his member seat, in order to continue serving in the Senate. ^[1]

References

↑ Tiny Kox blijft SP in Senaat leiden, Website SP, 24 november 2006.

(Dutch) Parlement.com biography

External links

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(Dutch) Senate biography

v t e Current Members of the Senate of the Netherlands <br/ >2011 - present <br/ >Situation on 12 February 2014

50PLUS<br/ >(50+ - 1)	Nagel

Christian Democratic Appeal<br/ >(CDA - 11)	Van Bijsterveld Brinkman Essers Flierman Franken Hoekstra Van der Linden Lokin-Sassen Martens Terpstra De Vries-Leggedoor

ChristianUnion<br/ >(CU - 2)	Ester Kuiper

Democrats 66<br/ >(D66 - 5)	Backer Van Boxtel Engels De Graaf Scholten

GreenLeft<br/ >(GL - 5)	De Boer Ganzevoort Strik Thissen Vos

Independent Senate Group<br/ >(OSF - 1)	De Lange

Labour Party<br/ >(PvdA - 14)	Barth Beuving Duivesteijn Ter Horst Koning Koole Linthorst Postema Schrijver Sent Sylvester Vlietstra De Vries Witteveen

Party for the Animals<br/ >(PvdD - 1)	Koffeman

Party for Freedom<br/ >(PVV - 10)	Van Beek Van Dijk Faber Frijters De Graaff Kok Popken Reynaers Sørensen Van Strien

People's Party for Freedom and Democracy<br/ >(VVD - 16)	Beckers Bröcker Broekers-Knol (President) Bruijn Dupuis Duthler De Graaf De Grave Hermans Huijbregts-Schiedon Van Kappen Kneppers-Heynert Knip Schaap Schouwenaar Swagerman

Reformed Political Party<br/ >(SGP - 1)	Holdijk

Socialist Party<br/ >(SP - 8)	Elzinga Gerkens Kox Quik-Schuijt Reuten Ruers Slagter-Roukema (Smaling) Vliegenthart

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 House of Representatives of the Netherlands

Persondata
Name	Kox, Tiny
Alternative names	Kox, Martinus Josephus Maria
Short description	Dutch politician
Date of birth	May 6, 1953
Place of birth	Zeelst, Netherlands
Date of death
Place of death

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