John Kerstens

John Kerstens

Johannes Wilhelmus Maria (John) Kerstens (born January 20, 1965 in Zegge) is a Dutch politician and former trade union leader. As a member of the Labour Party (Partij van de Arbeid) he has been an MP since September 20, 2012.

Among others Kerstens was vice president of the Federation Dutch Labour Movement (Federatie Nederlandse Vakbeweging) and president of affiliate union FNV Construction (FNV Bouw).

Kerstens studied law at Tilburg University. He is married, has one daughter and a younger son and he also lives in Arnhem.

References

(Dutch) Parlement.com biography

Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, 2012–present

House of Representatives, 20 September 2012 - present

People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD - 40)	Zijlstra Van Ark Azmani Berckmoes-Duindam <Blok> De Boer Bosma Bosman Ten Broeke Van der Burg De Caluwé <Dijkhoff> R. Dijkstra Duisenberg Elias Geselschap Harbers Heerema <Hennis-Plasschaert> <Huizing> De Lange <Leegte> <De Liefde> Van der Linde <Litjens> Lodders <Lucas> Van Miltenburg Moors An. Mulder Neppérus <Van Nieuwenhuizen> Nijkerken-de Haan Van Oosten Potters Van der Ree A. Rutte <M. Rutte> <Schippers> Schut-Welkzijn <Van der Steur> Straus Taverne Teeven Tellegen <Van Veen> Veldman <Verheijen> Visser De Vries Vuijk <Weekers> Van Wijngaarden Van 't Wout Ziengs

Labour Party (PvdA - 35)	Samsom Arib (Speaker) Asante <Bonis> Bouwmeester Brouwer Çegerek <Van Dam> Van Dekken <O. Van Dijk> <Dijsselbloem> (Dikkers) Eijsink Fokke Groot Günal-Gezer <Hamer> <Heijnen> <Hilkens> Hoogland Jacobi <Jadnanansing> Kerstens <Klijnsma> Kuiken Van Laar Leenders Maij Marcouch Mohandis Nijboer Oosenbrug <Plasterk> Rebel-Volp Recourt Servaes Tanamal <Timmermans> van der Velde Vermeij Vermue J. Vos M. Vos De Vries Wolbert Ypma Yücel

Socialist Party (SP - 15)	Roemer Bashir Van Bommel J. Van Dijk Van Gerven Gesthuizen <Jansen> Karabulut Kooiman Leijten Merkies Van Nispen Van Raak Siderius Smaling <Smits> <Swinkels> Ulenbelt <De Wit>

Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA - 13)	Van Haersma Buma Amhaouch Bruins Slot Geurts Heerma Van Helvert <Van Hijum> Keijzer Knops Ag. Mulder Omtzigt <Oskam> Rog Ronnes <De Rouwe> Van Toorenburg

Party for Freedom (PVV - 12)	Wilders Agema Beertema Bosma Van Dijck Fritsma <Gerbrands> De Graaf Graus Helder Klever Madlener De Roon

Democrats 66 (D66 - 12)	Pechtold Belhaj Bergkamp <Berndsen> P. Dijkstra <Hachchi> Koolmees Koşer Kaya Van Meenen <Schouw> Sjoerdsma Swinkels Van Veldhoven Verhoeven Van Weyenberg

Christian Union (CU - 5)	Segers Bruins Dik-Faber Schouten <Slob> Voordewind

GreenLeft (GL - 4)	Klaver <Ellemeet> Grashoff <Van Ojik> <Sap> Van Tongeren Voortman

Reformed Political Party (SGP - 3)	Van der Staaij Bisschop Dijkgraaf

Party for the Animals (PvdD - 2)	Thieme Ouwehand <Wassenberg>

50PLUS (50+ - 1)	Krol <Baay-Timmerman>

Independents (Group Bontes/Van Klaveren) (Bontes/Van Klaveren - 2)	Bontes Van Klaveren

Independents (Group Kuzu/Öztürk) (Kuzu/Öztürk - 2)	Kuzu Öztürk

Independent (Member Van Vliet) (Van Vliet - 1)	Van Vliet

Independent (Member Klein) (Klein - 1)	Klein

Independent (Member Houwers) (Houwers - 1)	Houwers

Independent (Member Monasch) (Monasch - 1)	Monasch

Bold signifies the Parliamentary leader (first mentioned) Bold also signifies the Speaker Brackets () signifies a temporary absent member Italics signifies a temporary member <> signifies a member who prematurely left this House of Representatives See also: Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, 2010–12 See also: Members of the Senate of the Netherlands, 2015–present See also: Members of the Senate of the Netherlands, 2011–15

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