Vicky Maeijer (born 7 September 1986) is a Dutch politician representing 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 ...

. She has been a member of the

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since 23 March 2017. Previously, she was a

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for the

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from 2014 to 2017.

Career

Maeijer obtained a bachelor's degree in Dutch law at the

Erasmus University Rotterdam Erasmus University Rotterdam (abbreviated as ''EUR'', nl, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam ) is a public research university located in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The university is named after Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, a 15th-century humanist ...

in 2009, and completed a master's degree in international and European public law at the same institution. Between 2007 and 2014 she worked at different times as a policy worker for the

party in the

of the Netherlands and the

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. She started working for

Raymond de Roon Raymond de Roon (born 1 September 1952 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch politician and former prosecutor. As a member of the Party for Freedom (Partij voor de Vrijheid) he has been an MP since 30 November 2006. He focuses on matters of foreign polic ...

and later became an aid to Louis Bontes. She entered the

2011 Dutch provincial elections Provincial elections were held in the Netherlands on Wednesday 2 March 2011. Eligible voters elected the members of the provincial councils in the twelve provinces. These elections also indirectly determined the members of the Senate, since the 56 ...

as the

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(top party candidate) for the Party for Freedom at age 24. She stated that she wanted the provincial government to focus on its main tasks of spatial planning, traffic and environment. Other stated issues were the decrease in provincial civil servants, a decrease in the number of members of the provincial State and provincial executive, and a publicly elected King's Commissioner. Maeijer was a member of the States of South Holland between 17 March 2011 and 1 July 2014. For the 2012 general election she was number 21 on the Party for Freedom list. Until July 2014 she was the party leader in the States of South Holland. In the 2014 European Parliament elections Maeijer was elected for the

. In 2017, she was elected as a Member of the

, she took office on 23 March.

Electoral history

References

External links

European Parliament page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Maeijer, Vicky 1986 births Living people Erasmus University Rotterdam alumni Members of the House of Representatives (Netherlands) Members of the Provincial Council of South Holland MEPs for the Netherlands 2014–2019 21st-century women MEPs for the Netherlands Party for Freedom politicians Party for Freedom MEPs Politicians from Rotterdam 21st-century Dutch politicians 20th-century Dutch women