Alexander Kops (born 23 November 1984) is a Dutch politician serving as a member of the

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since 2017. A member of the

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(PVV), a nationalist, right-wing populist political party in the Netherlands. He previously was a member of the

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from 2014 to 2017.

Biography

Kops was born on 23 November 1984 in

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. In 2003 he obtained his propaedeutics as a German language teacher at the

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. Kops then studied German at

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between 2004 and 2009. He started as a German teacher at a high school in

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in 2008. In the 2010 general election, he stood for the Party for Freedom, but as he was number 27 on the list he was not chosen. His contract at the high school was not renewed. In early 2011 he started as a policy worker for the Party for Freedom at the European Parliament. On 1 July 2014 he ended his contract there; on 8 July he was made member of the Senate. In the Senate he succeeded

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, who had been

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to the

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. In the 2015 Senate election he held place fourteen on the Party for Freedom list, the party gained nine seats and Kops was elected on the base of preference votes. He gained the most votes of any Party for Freedom candidate. From 26 March 2015 until 12 April 2017 Kops concurrently served in the

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. In the

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, he held place nineteen on the party's list. He was elected to the House of Representatives and subsequently resigned from the Senate. He took up his seat on 23 March 2017.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kops, Alexander 1984 births Living people 21st-century Dutch politicians Dutch educators Leiden University alumni Members of the House of Representatives (Netherlands) Members of the Provincial Council of Overijssel Members of the Senate (Netherlands) Party for Freedom politicians People from Leidschendam 20th-century Dutch people