Femke Halsema
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Femke Halsema in 2010
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Parliamentary leader - GreenLeft House of Representatives of the Netherlands |
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In office November 26, 2002 – December 16, 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Paul Rosenmöller |
| Succeeded by | Jolande Sap |
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In office May 19, 1998 – January 12, 2011 |
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| Succeeded by | Rik Grashoff |
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25 April 1966 Haarlem, Netherlands |
| Political party | GreenLeft |
| Residence | Amsterdam |
| Website | www.femkehalsema.nl |
Femke Halsema (born April 25, 1966) is a former Dutch politician. She was a member of the House of Representatives from 1998 till 2011. She was also the leader of the GreenLeft parliamentary party in the House of Representatives from 2002 till 2010.
Halsema was born in Haarlem, North Holland into a social-democratic family. Her mother - O.B.M. Fles - was a long-time alderwoman for the social-democratic PvdA party in Enschede. Halsema is likely of Jewish descent on her mother's side, and she has said she was bullied as a child because of her dark looks.
In 1984 Halsema graduated from high school with a HAVO diploma. After that she took courses at the Vrije Hogeschool (teachers program for Waldorf schools) in Driebergen. In 1985 she started training as a teacher, specializing in History and Dutch in Utrecht. She quit the teacher training programme in 1988 without taking her degree, and commenced on a degree course in social sciences at the University of Utrecht. In 1992 she became a "supernumerary lecturer in scientific methods and techniques" at the faculty for social sciences. She took her degree in 1993, having specialized in criminology.
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