Faissal Boulakjar

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Faissal Boulakjar
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Member of the House of Representatives
Assumed office
31 March 2021
Member of the Breda municipal council
In office
27 March 2014[1] – 1 April 2021[2]
Succeeded byBart Lauwen
Personal details
Born
F. Boulakjar

(1979-04-28) 28 April 1979 (age 42)
Tifarouine, Morocco
Political partyDemocrats 66
Children2
Alma materSpectrum College

Faissal Boulakjar (born 28 April 1979) is a Moroccan-born Dutch politician, who has been serving as a member of the House of Representatives since the 2021 Dutch general election. He is a member of the social liberal party Democrats 66 (D66) and previously held a seat in the Breda municipal council (2014–21).

Early life, education, and career[]

Boualkjar was born in 1979 in the Moroccan village Tifarouine and has three brothers and three sisters.[3][4] His family emigrated to the Netherlands in 1983 after his father had moved there in 1966 to work in a factory of the snack brand Nibb-it. He grew up in the Breda neighborhood Heusdenhout.[4] Between 1993 and 1998, Boulakjar attended the secondary school Olof/Florijn College at mavo level before studying facility management at Spectrum College until 2004. He would later also earn an hbo degree.[3]

He was a security guard at the Breda retirement home Raffy in the years 2004–06 and subsequently worked as a youth worker for Surplus Welzijn.[3][5] He also helped organize free futsal training for disadvantaged children next to his job.[6] Boulakjar became a reintegration adviser in 2011 but left that position the following year to work as a personal injury adviser until 2018. Thereafter, he served as an independent trainer and adviser and as an advisor of the program Samen Ouder Worden (Getting older together), which promotes volunteering for elderly people.[3]

Politics[]

Boulakjar joined Democrats 66 in 2009 because of the rise of populism and was elected to the Breda municipal council in the 2014 municipal election.[4] His specializations were youth, education, sports, and sustainability, and he became his party's vice caucus leader one year later.[7] He was re-elected in the 2018 municipal election as D66's third candidate, remained vice caucus leader, and served as the party's spokesperson for construction, housing, climate, security, and the region.[8][9] In 2019, Boulakjar and councilors from the Labour Party wrote a policy paper, in which they called for solving problems in the vulnerable district Hoge Vucht.[10] He also served as manager of D66's campaign in the Breda region for three elections in 2018 and 2019.[11]

He ran for member of parliament in the 2021 general election, being placed sixteenth on D66's party list. Boulakjar was installed as House member on 31 March after he had been elected with 2,875 preference votes.[12] He vacated his seat in the Breda municipal council the following day.[2] Within his caucus, his specializations are housing, spatial planning, railways, and public transport.[13] Boulakjar is a member of the parliamentary Committees for Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality; for Infrastructure and Water Management; and for the Interior; and he is on the Benelux Interparliamentary Consultative Council.[3]

Personal life[]

Boulakjar is a resident of the North Brabant village Teteringen, which is located close to Breda.[3] He has a wife called Bouchra, and he has a son and a daughter.[4][14]

References[]

  1. ^ "Vergadering 27-03-2014" [Meeting 27-03-2014]. Gemeente Breda (in Dutch). Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "Toelaten tot de raad van dhr R. van den Bosch ter vervanging van mw M. van Hemel" [Admission to the council of Mr R. van den Bosch as a replacement of Mrs M. van Hemel]. Gemeente Breda (in Dutch). 1 April 2021. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f "Biografie, onderwijs en loopbaan van Faissal Boulakjar" [Biography, education, and career of Faissal Boulakjar]. Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal (in Dutch). Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Boulakjar, Faissal (26 January 2021). "Kandidaat-Kamerlid Faissal Boulakjar: 'Dit land heeft mijn vader, heeft ons alles gegeven'" [MP candidate Faissal Boulakjar: 'This country has given my father, has given us everything']. BN DeStem (Interview) (in Dutch). Interviewed by Palk Peeters. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  5. ^ Huijser, Petra (29 January 2005). "Toezichthouder zorgt voor gevoel van veiligheid" [Security guard provides a sense of security]. BN/DeStem (in Dutch).
  6. ^ "We zien cultuurverschil. Deze jongens zijn temperamentvoller en emotioneler" [We can see cultural differences. These boys have more temperament and emotions]. BN/DeStem (in Dutch). 11 April 2007. p. 26.
  7. ^ Boulakjar, Faissal. "Raadslid in beeld" [Councilor profile]. NotuBiz (Interview) (in Dutch). Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  8. ^ "Proces-verbaal van de verkiezingsuitslag van de gemeenteraad" [Record of the election result of the municipal council] (PDF). Gemeente Breda (in Dutch). 22 March 2018. p. 3. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  9. ^ "Raadsleden" [Councilors]. D66 Breda (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 17 January 2021. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  10. ^ Peeters, Palko (10 April 2019). "Debat wijk Hoge Vucht: 'Breda kent hoge mate van segregatie'" [Debate neighborhood Hoge Vucht: 'Breda has a high degree of segregation']. Brabants Dagblad (in Dutch). Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  11. ^ "Kandidatenboek Tweede Kamerverkiezing 2021" [Candidate book House of Representatives 2021] (PDF). D66 (in Dutch). November 2020. p. 88. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  12. ^ "Uitslag Tweede Kamerverkiezing 17 maart 2021" [Results general election 17 March 2021] (PDF). Kiesraad (in Dutch). 26 March 2021. p. 224. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  13. ^ "Faissal Boulakjar". D66 (in Dutch). Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  14. ^ Hochstenbach, Gerlach (17 March 2021). "Een dag van leven tussen hoop en vrees voor drie West-Brabantse kandidaten" [A day of living between hope and fear for three candidates from the west of Brabant]. BN DeStem (in Dutch). Retrieved 10 April 2021.
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