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LIFE Life before politics Jeltje van Nieuwenhoven was born in Noordwolde in the Frisia n municipality of Weststellingwerf . Her father was a carpenter. She went to a public Elementary School in Noordwolde. After obtaining her MULO, specializing in the arts, she studied to become librarian. Between 1960 and 1979 she was librarian. First for the local library in Wolvega and the provincial library of Friesland , but in 1966 she began to work at the Institute for the History Of Art of the University Of Utrecht . In the mean time she had become member of the PvdA. In 1974 she became librarian at the scientific foundation of the PvdA, the Wiardi Beckman Foundation . She also became treasurer of the Vinkeveen branch of the party. In 1976 she became member of the political working group of the women's movement within the PvdA, the Red Women (Rooie Vrouwen). In 1978 she was elected to the Local Legislative in Vinkeveen and she immediatly became member of the Local Executive . In 1979 she became personal assistant of the chairman of the PvdA, Max Van Den Berg . Political Life In the 1981 Elections , Van Nieuwenhoven was elected into the lower house of parliament. In the 1982 Election s Van Nieuwenhoven was not elected, because she was put on an ineligible position. Instead she became member of the PvdA board. In 1983 she entered parliament however because a member of the PvdA resigned from parliament She would remain a member of parliament until 2004 . As member of parliament she held several positions within the party: in the period 1990 - 96 she was member of the Curatorium of the Wiardi Beckman Foundation, where she had been librarian; between 1997 and 2001 she was member of the party board. in 1995 she was made Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion. In parliament she showed particular interest for Media and culture. She was the party's spokesperson on these issues. She belonged to the leftwing flank of the PvdA, she is known for her ardent Feminism . In 1985 she voted for the motion- Beckers which would remove all nuclear weapons from the Netherlands, against the majority of her parliamentary party, and in 1997 she voted for the motion- Rouvoet which would allow the family Gümüs to remain in the Netherlands, again against the majority of her parliamentary party. It should be noted that both motions failed. She was chairperson of the committee for Women's emancipation between 1989 and 1994 and of the committee for Health, Welfare and Sports between 1994 and 1998 . As a prominent member of parliament, Van Nieuwenhoven held several positions within the world of the arts. She was member of the board of the foundation for the Festival of Stories in Amsterdam , between 1989 and 1994. She was chairperson of the board of the Combined Theaters in Amsterdam betweem 1992 and 2002 . She also was member of the board of the House near the Amstel foundation for Youth Theater in the same period. Furthermore she was member of the board of the Dutch Filmfestival and chairperson of the board of the VSB Poetry Prize. In 1998 she was elected chairperson of the lower house of parliament. She was the first woman to have this function. In 2002 she did not stand for reelection and instead became Chairperson ad interim of her own parliamentary party, which was a considerable crisis, after loosing the Elections . In November 2002 she stood for Election of chairperson and Top Candidate for her own party, but was convincingly beaten by Wouter Bos . Van Nieuwenhoven came second (with a 30% margin) and was second candidate and first woman on the PvdA list. She became the vice-chair of the parliamentary party, responsible for internal affairs. Life after Politics In 2004 she left parliament to become member of the Provincial Executive of South Holland . In 2006 she resigned from this post, because of health reasons. In 2005 she was rewarded with the Golden Pin of the PvdA, which had previously only been given to Joop Den Uyl and Max Van Der Stoel . She currently chairs the committee that will select and asses candidate MPs for the PvdA. Van Nieuwenhoven still holds several functions in the Dutch world of the arts, she is chairperson of the National Theater, member of the academy for the Golden Goosefeather (an art prise), member of the advisory board of the Institute Néerlandais and the Kröler Möller Museum . |
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