Party for the Animals
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Party for the Animals
Partij voor de Dieren |
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| Abbreviation | PvdD |
| Leader | Marianne Thieme |
| Chairman | Luuk Folkerts |
| Leader in the Senate | Niko Koffeman |
| Leader in the House of Representatives | Marianne Thieme |
| Founded | October 2002 |
| Youth wing | PINK! |
| Thinktank | Nicolaas G. Pierson foundation |
| Membership (2017) | 12,866 |
| Ideology |
Animal liberation Environmentalism Soft Euroscepticism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| International affiliation | Euro Animal 7 |
| European Parliament group | European United Left–Nordic Green Left |
| Colours | Green |
| Seats in the Senate |
2 / 75
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| Seats in the House of Representatives |
2 / 150
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| States-Provincial |
18 / 570
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| Seats in the European Parliament |
1 / 26
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| Website | |
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www.partijvoordedieren.nl www.partyfortheanimals.nl www.pinkpolitiek.nl |
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The Party for the Animals (Dutch: Partij voor de Dieren; PvdD) is a political party in the Netherlands. Among its main goals are animal rights and animal welfare, though it claims not to be a single-issue party. The party does consider itself to be a testimonial party, which does not seek to gain political power, but only to testify to its beliefs and thereby influence other parties.
Its chairwoman and political leader is Marianne Thieme.
At the moment the Party for the Animals holds 2 of the 150 seats in the House of Representatives and 1 of the 75 seats in the Senate. In the House of Representatives Marianne Thieme and Esther Ouwehand represent the PvdD since November 30, 2006, whereas Niko Koffeman represents it in the Senate since June 12, 2007. In the 2014 European Parliament elections, the party gained a representative in the European Parliament, Anja Hazekamp.
The Party for the Animals was founded in October 2002 by Marianne Thieme, among others.
In the Dutch general election of 2003 it gained 50,000 votes (0.5%), but not a seat in the House of Representatives.
In the 2004 European Parliament election the party gained 153,000 votes (3.2%), three times as much as in the 2002 Dutch general election. Still the number of votes was not enough to obtain a seat in the European Parliament.
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