Stephan van Baarle

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Stephan van Baarle
Stephan van Baarle in 2021 (cropped).png
Member of the House of Representatives
Assumed office
31 March 2021
Member of the Rotterdam municipal council
Assumed office
29 March 2018[1]
Personal details
Born
S.R.T. van Baarle

(1991-08-25) 25 August 1991 (age 30)
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Political partyDENK
Alma materErasmus University Rotterdam

Stephan R.T. van Baarle (born 25 August 1991) is a Dutch politician, serving as a member of the House of Representatives since 2021. A member of the minority interest party DENK, he has also been serving on the Rotterdam municipal council since 2018.

Early life and education[]

He was born in 1991 in Rotterdam to a Dutch mother and a Turkish father.[2] Van Baarle was raised by his mother in the Rotterdam neighborhood Vreewijk and attended the high school Vreewijk Lyceum. He studied sociology at Erasmus University Rotterdam and became a junior teacher at his university. He was also active for the Labour Party in 2014.[3]

Politics[]

In 2015, when DENK was established, Van Baarle started working as a policy officer for its House caucus and as director of its think tank Statera. He was one of the first members of DENK, which was founded by two MPs who had left the Labour Party the year before.[2][3] Van Baarle ran for member of parliament in the 2017 general election, being placed fifth on DENK's party list. Besides, he chaired the election program committee.[4] He was not elected, as his party received three seats and his 408 preference votes were not enough to meet the threshold.[5]

Van Baarle was DENK's lijsttrekker in Rotterdam in the 2018 municipal elections.[6] His party won four seats in the municipal council, while lijstduwer Tunahan Kuzu received almost twice as many votes as Van Baarle.[7][8] He also remained on as a policy officer.[9] In the council, where he served as caucus leader, Van Baarle successfully proposed a ban on disturbances by the street use of laughing gas together with Livable Rotterdam.[10] He was nominated for Best Politician of Rotterdam by a cooperation of a number of Rotterdam press organizations in both 2018 and 2019.[11] Van Baarle supported DENK's parliamentary leader Farid Azarkan when he was being expelled from the party by its board in May 2020, and he called on the board to resign.[12]

He was DENK's third candidate in the 2021 general election and also served as the party's campaign manager.[13] He was installed as member of the House of Representatives on 31 March after he was elected with 2,449 preference votes.[14] Van Baarle did not leave the municipal council, but he did step down as caucus leader the following month.[15]

House committees[]

Van Baarle is on the following parliamentary committees in the House of Representatives:[16]

  • Committee for Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality
  • Committee for Education, Culture and Science
  • Committee for Infrastructure and Water Management
  • Committee for the Interior
  • Committee for Social Affairs and Employment

Personal life[]

Van Baarle is a resident of Rotterdam and is an agnostic.[17] He is a supporter of football club Feyenoord and a fan of the German band Rammstein, and he plays the guitar.[6][18]

References[]

  1. ^ "Fractie DENK" [DENK caucus]. Gemeente Rotterdam (in Dutch). Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Vossen, Koen (7 December 2016). "We zijn geen stemvee" [We are not voting fodder]. De Groene Amsterdammer (in Dutch). Retrieved 4 April 2021.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Beek, Monica; Liukku, Antti (31 March 2018). "Het gaat snel met de oogappel van Kuzu" [Things are going fast for Kuzu's precious]. AD (in Dutch). Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  4. ^ Kok, Laurens (31 December 2016). "Partij Denk heeft geen brede aanhang" [Party DENK does not have a wide following]. Het Parool (in Dutch). p. 4.
  5. ^ "Uitslag Tweede Kamerverkiezing 2017 (getekend exemplaar)" [Results House of Representatives election 2017 (signed copy)] (PDF). Kiesraad (in Dutch). 21 March 2017. pp. 150 and 151. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b Hoogstad, Mark (28 January 2018). "Denk kiest voor Van Baarle als lijsttrekker in Rotterdam" [DENK chooses Van Baarle as its lijsttrekker in Rotterdam]. Trouw (in Dutch). Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  7. ^ "PVV verliest zetel in Rotterdam, Denk krijgt er vier" [PVV loses seat in Rotterdam, DENK receives four]. NOS (in Dutch). 23 March 2018. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  8. ^ "DENK-fractievoorzitter Tunahun Kuzu wordt raadslid in Rotterdam" [DENK parliamentary leader Tunahan Kuzu will become a councilor in Rotterdam]. RTL Nieuws (in Dutch). 23 March 2018. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  9. ^ Liukku, Antti (31 March 2020). "Fractievoorzitter Van Baarle - 'de oogappel van Kuzu' - is kortaf over crisis bij Denk" [Caucus leader Van Baarle – 'Kuzu's precious' – is curtly about DENK's crisis]. PZC (in Dutch). Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  10. ^ De Koning, Adrianne (13 December 2019). "Verbod op lachgas op straat in Rotterdam" [Ban on street use of laughing gas in Rotterdam]. AD (in Dutch). Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  11. ^ König, Eppo (14 November 2019). "Genomineerden 'Beste Politicus van Rotterdam' zijn bekend" [Nominees for Best Politician of Rotterdam are known]. nrc.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  12. ^ Liukku, Antti (6 May 2020). "Denk Rotterdam spreekt zich uit over partijconflict: royeren van Azarkan is 'onacceptabel'" [DENK Rotterdam gives its opinion about conflict within the party: Azarkan's expulsion is 'unacceptable']. AD (in Dutch). Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  13. ^ "Veel lokale politici DENK op lijst voor Tweede Kamer" [Many local DENK politicians on general election list]. Trouw (in Dutch). 19 December 2020. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  14. ^ "Uitslag Tweede Kamerverkiezing 17 maart 2021" [Results general election 17 March 2021] (PDF). Kiesraad (in Dutch). 26 March 2021. p. 273. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  15. ^ Groenendijk, Peter (15 April 2021). "Dit is de nieuwe Rotterdamse voorman van Denk: 'Wij vertolken het geluid van de ongehoorden'" [This is DENK's new leader in Rotterdam: 'We express the voice of the unheard']. AD (in Dutch). Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  16. ^ "Stephan van Baarle". Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  17. ^ Van Baarle, Stephan (17 February 2018). "Integratie is een kunstmatige term" [Integration is an artificial term]. nrc.nl (Interview) (in Dutch). Interviewed by Elsje Jorritsma and Eppo König. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  18. ^ Van Baarle, Stephan (29 January 2018). "Rotterdammers willen niet tegen elkaar uitgespeeld worden" [People from Rotterdam do not want to be pit against each other]. AD (Interview) (in Dutch). Interviewed by Monica Beek. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
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