Johanna Catharina "Tineke" Huizinga-Heringa (born 16 February 1960) is a Dutch politician of the Christian Union (CU) party. Huizinga grew up in

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; both of her parents were teachers. After attending gymnasium, she began to study

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at the

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. She became involved in the Christian student's association Ichtus, where she met her future husband. They married in 1982. After passing her candidate exams (roughly equivalent of a

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), she stopped her studies and moved to

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. She became a housewife and mother of three children. She volunteered as translator at a Christian foundation, Open Doors, which advocates the interest of persecuted Christians worldwide. She became involved in the cases of

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s and refugees and worked as a volunteer for VluchtenlingenWerk Nederland. Because of her involvement with social and religious issues, the

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asked her to become their top candidate in Heerenveen for the 1998 municipal elections. She was elected into the Heerenveen municipal council. In 2002 she was elected member of House of Representatives. She was elected on basis of preference votes. The ChristianUnion only got four seats and she was seventh candidate, but because so many voters voted for her she entered parliament at the cost of prominent GPV leader

Eimert van Middelkoop Eimert van Middelkoop (; born 14 February 1949) is a retired Dutch politician of the Christian Union (CU) party and teacher. He is the chairman of the Institute for Multiparty Democracy since 20 January 2018. Early life After high school, van ...

. She was member of the parliamentary research committee into the

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. In the 2003 elections she was re-elected, again with preference votes, now at the cost of

Leen van Dijke Leendert Cornelis "Leen" van Dijke (born 3 September 1955) is a retired Dutch politician of the defunct Reformatory Political Federation (RPF) party and later co-founder of the Christian Union (CU) party and management consultant. As a member o ...

. She was fourth candidate and the ChristianUnion only got three seats. In parliament she had been occupied with foreign affairs, international development, migration, integration, spatial planning and the environment. She was secretary of the

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. As Secretary of State for Transport, Public Works and Water Management, Huizinga survived a

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in April 2008 over the (supposedly failed) introduction of a

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-based nationwide public transport payment system.Keken, Kim van. "Huizinga overleeft motie van wantrouwen" '' de Volkskrant'', 17 April 2008, p.3

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