Alexander van Hattem (born 6 June 1983) is a Dutch politician who has been a member of the

Senate A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...

for the

Party for Freedom The Party for Freedom ( nl, Partij voor de Vrijheid, PVV) is a nationalist, right-wing populist political party in the Netherlands. Founded in 2006 as the successor to Geert Wilders' one-man faction in the House of Representatives, it won nine ...

since 2015 and is a member of the Provincial Council of North Brabant. Van Hattem studied history at Radboud University before completing a law course at

Avans Hogeschool Avans University of Applied Sciences ( nl, Avans Hogeschool) is a Dutch high ranked vocational university. It is located in three cities: Breda, 's-Hertogenbosch, and Tilburg. The school has 30,000 students studying 40 courses in 18 institutes. ...

in Tilburg and has run a legal consultancy business since 2005. He was previously a member of the

Pim Fortuyn List The Pim Fortuyn List ( nl, Lijst Pim Fortuyn, LPF) was a political party in the Netherlands named after its eponymous founder Pim Fortuyn, a former university professor and political columnist. The party was considered populist, right-wing popul ...

(LPF) and was chairman of the LPF's youth wing ''Jonge Fortuynisten.'' He subsequently worked as an intern for the

and was elected to the Provincial Council of North Brabant in 2014 where he served as chairman of the Culture and Society Committee. That same year he encountered some controversy when he expressed support for controversial remarks made by Geert Wilders about Moroccan immigrants. After calls from other parties for him to be removed from the Culture and Society Committee, van Hatten apologized and was allowed to keep his position. In 2015, he was elected to sit in the Senate for the PVV. Van Hattem was reelected for the Netherlands senate for another term in May 2023.

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1983 births Living people Radboud University Nijmegen alumni Members of the Senate (Netherlands) Party for Freedom politicians Pim Fortuyn List politicians 21st-century Dutch politicians People from Bergeijk {{Netherlands-politician-stub