Robert "Rob" Roos (born 2 August 1966) is a Dutch politician and a current
Member of the European Parliament
A Member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament.
When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the ECSC) first met in 1952, its ...
(MEP). He is a member of the
JA21
JA21 (, backronym for Juiste Antwoord 2021, or 'Right Answer 2021') is a political party in the Netherlands, currently active in the Senate as the Nanninga Group (). It was founded in December 2020 by Joost Eerdmans and Annabel Nanninga after ...
political party, since leaving the
Forum for Democracy
Forum for Democracy ( nl, Forum voor Democratie, FvD) is a right-wing populist Eurosceptic political party in the Netherlands that was founded as a think tank by Thierry Baudet and Henk Otten in 2016. The party first participated in elections ...
(FvD) in 2020.
Roos worked in the telecoms industry before becoming active in politics. He briefly served in the
States of South Holland from 28 March 2019 to 4 September 2019, in which he chaired the FvD group. He had been ''
lijsttrekker
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'' in the
2019 provincial election.
"Lijsttrekker FvD in Zuid-Holland verruilt provincie voor Europa"
'' de Volkskrant'' (in Dutch), 13 August 2019. In the 2019 European Parliament election
The 2019 European Parliament election was held between 23 and 26 May 2019, the ninth parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979. A total of 751 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) represent more than 512 million peop ...
, he was placed second on the list led by Derk Jan Eppink
Derk Jan Eppink (born 7 November 1958) is a Dutch journalist, politician in the Netherlands, and former cabinet secretary for European Commissioners Bolkestein (1999–2004) and Kallas (2004–2007). In 2009, he was elected to the Eu ...
. In the 2019 Senate election, he was placed thirteenth on the list led by Henk Otten
Henk Otten (born 30 May 1967) is a Dutch politician and economist. He has been a member of the Senate since June 2019. He was the co-founder of the party Forum for Democracy (FvD) along with Thierry Baudet. He served as FvD treasurer from 2016 t ...
.
Roos currently represents JA21 in a Netherlands seat in the EU Parliament.[
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References
External links
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Parlement.com - biography
Living people
1966 births
People from Alblasserdam
MEPs for the Netherlands 2019–2024
Forum for Democracy MEPs
JA21 politicians
21st-century Dutch people
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