Tofik Dibi

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tofik Dibi

Member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands
In office November 30, 2006 – September 19, 2012
Personal details
Born	Tovek Dibi (1980-11-19) November 19, 1980 Vlissingen, Netherlands
Political party	GreenLeft (GroenLinks - GL)
Spouse(s)	Single
Residence	Amsterdam, Netherlands
Religion	Muslim
Website	(Dutch) Personal website

Tovek (Tofik) Dibi (born November 19, 1980 in Vlissingen) is a former Dutch politician for GreenLeft (GroenLinks). He was a Member of Parliament from November 30, 2006 till September 19, 2012. He focused on matters of criminal law, safety, youth, family, and integration.

Biography

Dibi is of Moroccan descent. He is studying Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam, specializing in cinema. He combined his study with activities in the Marxist Turkish Workers' Union in the Netherlands (Turkish: Hollanda Türkiyeli Isçiler Birligi (HTIB), Dutch: Turkse Arbeidersvereniging in Nederland), and in his own neighborhood Bos en Lommer in Amsterdam. Together with the Trotskyist International Socialists, he initiated the national demonstration Stop Bush! organizing protests when George W. Bush visited the Netherlands in 2005, and the national action committee Enough is Enough, which focused on the discrimination against Muslims.

In September 2006 Dibi unexpectedly came in seventh on the list of GreenLeft for the 2006 general elections and was chosen in the House of Representatives in November 2006. The GreenLeft screening commission called him "a political talent", to Dibi's own amazement, for he had not considered his candidacy all that seriously.^[1] At the time he was the youngest member of parliament. Because of his background he concentrates on improving opportunities for young allochtoon (migrant) people in the larger cities.

On January 13, 2007 Dibi was arrested and later released while pamphleteering against Dutch MP Geert Wilders with members of the International Socialists.^[2] Their posters called Wilders "an extremist" and "harmful for society".^[3]

In May 2012 he made public his internal candidacy for heading the Groenlinks list for the September 2012 elections.

References

(Dutch) Parlement.com biography

↑ Interview with Tofik Dibi at Spunk.nl
↑ Polarisatie en radicalisering in Nederland - Een verkenning van de stand van zaken in 2009, p. 106 [a government report on radical organisations]
↑ "Weer anti-Wildersbetogers opgepakt". NOS Nieuws. 2008-01-13. Retrieved 2008-01-13.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tofik Dibi.

v t e List of members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands<br/ > (2006–2010)

Christian Democratic Appeal	Schreijer-Pierik Van Geel Atsma Sterk Schinkelshoek de Vries Spies Ferrier Madsen Ormel Van Heugten Van Haersma Buma Çörüz Van Hijum Van Bochove Koopmans Van de Camp Blanksma-Van den Heuvel Koppejan Jager Joldersma Van Dijk Schermers Mastwijk de Nerée tot Babberich Biskop Uitslag Jos Hessels Ten Hoopen Omtzigt Van Vroonhoven-Kok Haverkamp De Pater-Van der Meer -Willemse-Van der Ploeg Jonker Bilder Knops De Rouwe Van Toorenburg Vietsch Smilde

ChristianUnion	Slob Voordewind Ortega-Martijn Cramer Anker Wiegman-Van Meppelen Scheppink

Democrats 66	Pechtold Kaya Van der Ham

GreenLeft	Halsema Vendrik Sap Van Gent Azough Dibi Peters

Dutch Labour Party	Arib Tang Kraneveldt Heijnen Vos Van Dijken Boelhouwer Heerts Hamer Van Dam Besselink Kuiken Tichelaar Verbeet (chair) Timmer Smeets Spekman Eijsink Samsom Gill'ard Staf Depla Agnes Wolbert Dijsselbloem Jacobi Paul Kalma Bouchibti Leerdam Roefs Blom Bouwmeester Van der Veen Vermeij Waalkens

Party for Freedom	Wilders Agema De Roon Brinkman Bosma Graus Madlener Van Dijck Fritsma

Party for the Animals	Thieme Ouwehand

People's Party for Freedom and Democracy	Rutte Kamp Griffith Van der Burg Teeven Schippers Nicolaï Remkes Van Beek Van Baalen Van Miltenburg Aptroot Boekestijn Neppérus Hamming-Bluemink Blok De Krom Zijlstra Ten Broeke Weekers Snijder-Hazelhoff

Member Verdonk	Verdonk

Reformed Political Party	Van der Vlies Van der Staaij

Socialist Party	Marijnissen Kant Karabulut Van Bommel de Wit Van Velzen Irrgang Van Raak Roemer Leijten Ulenbelt Smits Gesthuizen Van Dijk De Rooij Van Leeuwen Luijben Jansen Poppe Gerkens Bashir Van Gerven Langkamp Polderman Lempens

Italics signifies a temporary member - Bold signifies the parliamentary group leader

Persondata
Name	Dibi, Tofik
Alternative names	Dibi, Tovek
Short description	Dutch politician
Date of birth	November 19, 1980
Place of birth	Vlissingen, Netherlands
Date of death
Place of death

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.