Vicky Maeijer

Vicky Maeijer
Member of the House of Representatives
Assumed office
23 March 2017
Member of the European Parliament
In office
1 July 2014 – 23 March 2017
Constituency Netherlands
Member of the States of South Holland
In office
17 March 2011 – 1 July 2014
Personal details
Born (1986-09-07) 7 September 1986
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Political party Party for Freedom
Alma mater Erasmus University Rotterdam

Vicky Maeijer (born 7 September 1986) is a Dutch politician representing the Party for Freedom. She has been a member of the House of Representatives since 23 March 2017. Previously, she was a Member of the European Parliament for the Netherlands from 2014 to 2017.

Career

Maeijer obtained a bachelor's degree in Dutch law at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2009, and completed a master's degree in international and European public law at the same institution. Between 2007 and 2014 she worked at different times as a policy worker for the Party for Freedom party in the House of Representatives of the Netherlands and the European Parliament.[1] She started working for Raymond de Roon and later became an aid to Louis Bontes.[2] She entered the Dutch provincial elections, 2011 as the lijsttrekker (top party candidate) for the Party for Freedom at age 24. She stated that she wanted the provincial government to focus on its main tasks of spatial planning, traffic and environment. Other stated issues were the decrease in provincial civil servants, a decrease in the number of members of the provincial State and provincial executive, and a publicly elected King's Commissioner.[2]

Maeijer was a member of the States of South Holland between 17 March 2011 and 1 July 2014.[1] For the 2012 general election she was number 21 on the Party for Freedom list.[3] Until July 2014 she was the party leader in the States of South Holland. In the 2014 European Parliament elections Maeijer was elected for the Party for Freedom.[1] In 2017, she was elected as a Member of the House of Representatives, she took office on 23 March.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "V. (Vicky) Maeijer" (in Dutch). Parlement.com. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
  2. 1 2 "'Geert gelooft in me'" (in Dutch). NU.nl. 17 January 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
  3. ↑ "Vicky Maeijer op nummer 21 PVV-lijst" (in Dutch). Omroep West. 7 June 2012. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
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