2020 Christian Democratic Appeal Leadership Election
The 2020 Christian Democratic Appeal leadership election was called to elect the new Leader of the Christian Democratic Appeal, leader and lead candidate (''lijsttrekker'') of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) in the run-up to the 2021 Dutch general election. Background The position of party leader of the CDA had been vacant since the appointment of incumbent party leader Sybrand van Haersma Buma as mayor of Leeuwarden in May 2019. The CDA has no formal procedure in place for selecting a replacement. Initially, the party had intended to promote its leader in the House of Representatives (Netherlands), House of Representatives, Pieter Heerma, to the position of party leader, but Heerma declined this offer. Speculation that either Hugo de Jonge or Wopke Hoekstra would be selected instead, prompted Mona Keijzer to demand the CDA to hold an internal referendum over who the new party leader should be. Keijzer had already participated in earlier leadership elections, which she los ...
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Hugo De Jonge
Hugo Mattheüs de Jonge (; born 26 September 1977) is a Dutch politician serving as Minister of Housing and Spatial Planning since 2022 in the Fourth Rutte cabinet. A member of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), he was elected to its leadership in 2020 for the 2021 Dutch general election. He withdrew later that year, citing an impossibility to combine his position as Health Minister in charge of the COVID-19 pandemic efforts with his party leadership. Early life and career De Jonge studied at the Ichthus Hogeschool in Rotterdam to become a teacher in primary education and then continued in Zwolle a study for school management, which he completed with a diploma "school leader primary education". De Jonge worked in education for five years, first as a schoolteacher and eventually as deputy director of a primary school. De Jonge moved to national policy by working as a policy assistant for the CDA group in the House of Representatives in 2004. Between 2006 and 2010 he wor ...
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