M.J.D. "Rianne" Donders-de Leest (born 22 July 1960, in

Eindhoven Eindhoven ( ; ) is a city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality of the Netherlands, located in the southern Provinces of the Netherlands, province of North Brabant, of which it is the largest municipality, and is also locat ...

) is a Dutch politician for the

Christian Democratic Appeal The Christian Democratic Appeal ( , CDA) is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in the Netherlands. Formed as a federation in 1975 by the Catholic People's Party, the Anti-Revolutionary Party, and the Christian Historical ...

(CDA). Donders-de Leest started her career as a teacher at a primary school. She was elected into the

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in 1990. Till 2002 she was a councillor, among others as leader of the CDA

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. In 2000 she also became an

alderman An alderman is a member of a Municipal government, municipal assembly or council in many jurisdictions founded upon English law with similar officials existing in the Netherlands (wethouder) and Belgium (schepen). The term may be titular, denotin ...

, dealing with

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, traffic, transportation, housing and sports. From 1 September 2004 to 9 January 2015 she was

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of the municipality of

Geldrop-Mierlo Geldrop-Mierlo () is a municipality in southern Netherlands, in the province of North Brabant. The municipality was created by the merger of the two former municipalities of Geldrop and Mierlo on 1 January 2004. Villages Geldrop-Mierlo had a pop ...

. Since 30 January 2015 she has been mayor of

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.Mayor of Roermond
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