Jkvr. Corinne Elisabeth de Jonge van Ellemeet (born 26 April 1976) is a Dutch politician. In the parliamentary elections of 2017, she was elected to the House of Representatives for GreenLeft. Previously, she was a temporary member of the

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for

GreenLeft GroenLinks (, ) is a green political party in the Netherlands. It was formed on 1 March 1989 from the merger of four left-wing parties: the Communist Party of the Netherlands, the Pacifist Socialist Party, the Political Party of Radicals and t ...

between 18 November 2014 and 9 March 2015, when she replaced Linda Voortman who went on maternity leave.

Early life and education

Ellemeet is a member of the noble family De Jonge van Ellemeet and as such bears the nobility predicate "

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". She is related to the Brandt Corstius family through her mother; her mother is a first cousin of author and linguist Hugo Brandt Corstius (1935-2014). In her early youth Ellemeet lived on

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. Thereafter she lived most of her childhood in

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. Here she attended the highschool

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. De Jonge van Ellemeet won a Dutch scholarship to complete her secondary education at the

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in Italy between 1993 and 1995. She subsequently studied at the

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between 1995 and 2000, where she obtained an MA degree in history with a focus on recent and most recent history. In her final year she also studied American studies at

Smith College Smith College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts Women's colleges in the United States, women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts. It was chartered in 1871 by Sophia Smith (Smith College ...

Career

From 2002 until 2006 she worked for the

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. In 2006 she started a three-year period as an adjunct director of an economical programme-agency. In 2011 she became adjunct director of the cultural company

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, she was in this position until March 2014. At that time she became network director of the Natuur- en milieufederaties. Between 18 November 2014 and 9 March 2015 she was the temporary replacement of Linda Voortman of

in the

, Voortman went on maternity leave. In the parliamentary elections of 2012 Ellemeet had occupied number nine of the GreenLeft party list. As the party conquered four seats she was not elected. Three persons higher on the list than Ellemeet (

Rik Grashoff Hendrik Johannes "Rik" Grashoff (born 5 April 1961, in Krimpen aan den IJssel) is a Dutch engineer and politician. He is a member of the political party GreenLeft. From 23 November 2010 to 19 September 2012 he was a member of the House of Represe ...

, Arjan El Fassed and

Niels van den Berge Cornelis Niels van den Berge (born 28 December 1984 in Bad Honnef) is a Dutch politician. As a member of GreenLeft (GroenLinks) he was a temporary MP from 12 January to 11 March 2011, replacing Mariko Peters, who was on maternity leave. He focuse ...

) declined to take up the temporary seat of Voortman. In the parliamentary elections of 2017, she was elected to the House of Representatives for GreenLeft. She took office on 23 March 2017.

References

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Drs. C.E. (Corinne) Ellemeet
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