Johannes Henricus Antonius (Johan) Driessen (born 4 June 1981 in

Cuijk en Sint Agatha Cuijk en Sint Agatha is a former municipality in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It covered the villages of Cuijk and Sint Agatha. On September 4, 1315, a document mentioned a ''kapel van Sint Agatha onder Kuycbrockele''. The Crosier Monastery ...

) is a Dutch

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and former

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. He was an MP 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 ...

(PVV) from 17 June 2010 to 19 September 2012. He focused on matters of

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. In late 2013, Driessen joined the independent MP Louis Bontes who had been expelled from the PVV. Together with

Joram van Klaveren Joram Jaron van Klaveren (born 23 January 1979) is a Dutch politician. As a member of the Party for Freedom he was an MP from 17 June 2010 until 21 March 2014. He subsequently was an independent until his term in office ended on 23 March 2017. ...

, who had also left the PVV, Bontes later formed a new group in the House of Representatives. In 2014, the three founded a new party called

For the Netherlands VoorNederland (translated: For Netherlands or Pro-Netherlands) was a Dutch political party. It was previously active in the House of Representatives of the Netherlands as the Group Bontes/Van Klaveren ( nl, Groep Bontes/Van Klaveren), a parliament ...

(VNL), of which Driessen became the treasurer.

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Parlement.com biography
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