Christine Teunissen



Member of the Senate
Incumbent
Assumed office June 9, 2015
Municipal council of The Hague
Incumbent
Assumed office March 24, 2014
Personal details
Born	(1985-09-06) September 6, 1985 Leidschendam, Netherlands
Nationality	Dutch
Political party	Party for the Animals
Alma mater	Leiden University (MA, history)
Occupation	Politician, Press secretary
Website	Christine Bij Voorkeur

Christine Teunissen (born September 6, 1985 in Leidschendam) is a Dutch politician of the Party for the Animals (Partij voor de Dieren). Since March 24, 2014, she has been a member of the municipal council of The Hague, and since June 9, 2015, she has also been a member of the Senate. She is the youngest one of this Senate session.

Teunissen studied history at Leiden University. From 2012 to 2014, she was press secretary to the Party for the Animals fraction in the House of Representatives.

References

(Dutch) Parlement.com biography

External links

(Dutch) Senate biography

Members of the Senate of the Netherlands, 2015–present

Senate, 9 June 2015 - present

People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD: 13)	Jorritsma Broekers-Knol (President) Bruijn Duthler De Grave <Hermans> Huijbregts-Schiedon Van Kappen Klip-Martin Knip Krikke Schaap Schouwenaar <Swagerman> Van de Ven

Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA: 12)	Brinkman Atsma Van Bijsterveld Flierman Hoekstra Van Kesteren Knapen Martens Oomen Van Rij Rombouts De Vries-Leggedoor

Democrats 66 (D66: 10)	De Graaf Backer Bredenoord Engels Pijlman Prast Rinnooy Kan Schaper Schnabel Stienen

Party for Freedom (PVV: 9)	Faber Dercksen Van Hattem Kok Kops Markuszower Popken Van Strien Van Weerdenburg

Socialist Party (SP: 9)	Kox Van Apeldoorn Don <Elzinga> Gerkens Köhler Meijer Overbeek Ruers Wezel

Labour Party (PvdA: 8)	Barth Beuving Nooren Postema Schrijver Sent Verheijen Vreeman

GreenLeft (GL: 4)	Strik Ganzevoort Lindmeijer Vos

ChristianUnion (CU: 3)	Kuiper Bikker Ester

Party for the Animals (PvdD: 2)	Koffeman Teunissen

Reformed Political Party (SGP: 2)	Schalk Van Dijk

50PLUS (50+: 2)	Nagel Van Rooijen

Independent Senate Group (OSF: 1)	Ten Hoeve

Bold signifies the Parliamentary leader (first mentioned) Bold also signifies the President Brackets () signifies a temporary absent member Italics signifies a temporary member <> signifies a member who prematurely left this Senate See also: Members of the Senate of the Netherlands, 2011–15 See also: Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, 2012–present

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