Christine Teunissen (born 6 September 1985) is a Dutch politician of the

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(Partij voor de Dieren). Since 24 March 2014 she has been a member of the

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, and since 9 June 2015 she has also been a member of the

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. She was the youngest one of that Senate session. In the senate elections of May 2019 she was reelected as a senate member. From October 2018 to January 2019 she temporarily left the Senate to replace

Marianne Thieme Marianne Louise Thieme (, born 6 March 1972) is a Dutch politician, author and animal rights activist. A jurist by education, she served as the Party for the Animals' political leader from 2002 to 2019 and a member of the House of Representatives ...

in the Tweede Kamer (House of Representatives). In November 2020 the party published the list of candidates for the elections in March 2021. On this list Christine Teunissen appears as the number two, immediately after the party leader

Esther Ouwehand Esther Ouwehand (born 10 June 1976) is a Dutch politician and former marketing manager serving as leader of the Party for the Animals ( nl, Partij voor de Dieren, PvdD) and its parliamentary group in the House of Representatives since 2019. She ...

, which makes it likely that Teunissen will be elected as a member of the Tweede Kamer. Teunissen studied history at

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. From 2012 to 2014, she was

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to the Party for the Animals fraction in the

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