Gideon "Gidi" Markuszower (born 27 October 1977) is an

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– Dutch politician of the

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(PVV). He became a member of the Netherlands Senate on 9 June 2015. During the

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he was elected to the House of Representatives, and gave up his Senate seat. Research by the Dutch security service AIVD in 2010 suggested that he was influenced by a foreign security service, likely

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. When this was communicated to party leader Geert Wilders, he withdrew himself as a candidate for the Tweede Kamer.

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