Elisabeth 'Liesbeth' Tuijnman is the current

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of the

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Overbetuwe Overbetuwe () is a municipality in the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands. It was formed on 1 January 2001 as a merger of three former municipalities: Elst, Heteren and Valburg. Overbetuwe is bordered in the north by the river Rhine and in ...

in the

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. She obtained the equivalent of a bachelor's degree in education. Before becoming mayor of Overbetuwe, she had served as mayor to the

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community of

Norg Norg is a village in the northeastern Netherlands. It is located in the municipality of Noordenveld, Drenthe. It used to be an independent municipality until 1998. Norg is home to two windmills. History Norg is an ''esdorp'' which developed i ...

Papendrecht Papendrecht () is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland, at the crossing of the River Beneden Merwede and the Noord River. The municipality had a population of in and covers an area of of which is ...

and Sandebuur. Mayor Tuijnman is a member of the

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People's Party for Freedom and Democracy The People's Party for Freedom and Democracy ( nl, Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie ; VVD) is a conservative-liberal Andeweg, R. and G. Irwin ''Politics and Governance in the Netherlands'', Basingstoke (Palgrave) p.49 political party in ...

References

Expositie Elisabeth Tuijnman
Blixem Winkel Lunchcafé

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Mayor Liesbeth Tuijnman (with photo)
municipality of Overbetuwe {{DEFAULTSORT:Tuijnman, Elisabeth 1943 births Living people Dutch civil servants Dutch women civil servants Mayors in Gelderland People from Overbetuwe Mayors in South Holland People from Papendrecht People from Middelburg, Zeeland People's Party for Freedom and Democracy politicians Women mayors of places in the Netherlands