Annabel Nanninga

Annabel Nanninga
Leader of JA21 in the Senate
Assumed office
18 December 2020
Preceded byPosition established
Member of the Senate
Assumed office
26 October 2020
Member of the States of North Holland
Assumed office
20 March 2019
Personal details
Born
Annabel Nanninga

(1977-11-06) 6 November 1977 (age 46)
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Political partyJA21 (since 2020)
Other political
affiliations		Forum for Democracy (2017–2020)
Children3

Annabel Nanninga (born 6 November 1977) is a Dutch politician and journalist who was the co-founder of the JA21 party. She currently leads the party in the Senate and is a representative of the Provincial Council of North Holland. She has been a member of Amsterdam city council since 2018.[1]

Early life and career

Nanninga was born in the Amsterdam neighbourhood 'Dapperbuurt'. Also in Amsterdam, she attended the prestigious Barlaeus Gymnasium (high school). In an interview with RTL Nederland, she stated that she sometimes skipped classes to self-educate in the public library at the Prinsengracht. Nanninga subsequently dropped out of school as a teenager and held various jobs including in an ice cream parlor, as a caterer and in a fashion store.[2]

In 2012, she took an interest in blogging and journalism and began submitting op-eds to GeenStijl, PowNed, and Veronica Magazine among others.[3] In 2014, she co-founded the Dutch online news platform Jalta.nl with Joshua Livestro and was the site's managing editor until 2015. The website hired notable figures such as Frits Bolkestein, Thierry Baudet and Hafid Bouazza to write columns. She was also a columnist for DeJaap magazine.[4]

Political career

In the 2018 Dutch municipal elections, she was the party leader for Forum for Democracy (FVD) in Amsterdam.[5][6] FVD received three seats in the municipal council. Nanninga was sworn in as a councilor on March 29, 2018. In March 2019 she also became a member of the Provincial Council of North Holland. In the same elections, she was elected in the Provincial Council of Utrecht with preferential votes.[7] In October 2020 Nanninga went on maternity leave and was temporarily replaced by Hugo Berkhout and later by Robert Baljeu in the Senate.[8]

In November 2020, she left the FvD, when this party, in her opinion, did not distance itself fiercely enough from antisemitic apps written by members of its youth division.[9] Together with former FvD candidate Joost Eerdmans she founded the party JA21. On February 15, 2021, she returned to the Senate from her leave and joined the Van Pareren faction, which was renamed the Nanninga faction and has 7 seats. The faction subsequently became part of JA21.

Controversies

Nanninga posted a series of tweets on her Twitter page in 2006, which by some people were deemed antisemitic. According to others, her tweets were shown out of context and twisted in order to discredit her.[10] These tweets were retroactively deleted during 2020–21, however multiple internet archives contain screenshots of the tweets. In subsequent interviews, Nanninga stated that the tweets were intended to be satirical and had to be considered in their specific context, on which she extensively elaborated in Nieuw Israëlietisch Weekblad.[11] Nanninga also encountered some controversy over columns, in which she criticised the influx of migrants during the European refugee crisis and made satirical remarks regarding migrants from Africa trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea. Nanninga later claimed she used the ironic writing style of Gerard Reve.[12] In 2015, at the height of the refugee crisis, she sheltered a homosexual asylumseeker in her house for six months, because he was harassed at the asylum center.[13][14]

Personal life

Nanninga has three children: her first daughter was born when she was 19 years old; her second daughter followed three years later. In 2020 she had a son.[15]

Electoral history

Electoral history of Annabel Nanninga
Year Body Party Pos. Votes Result Ref.
Party seats Individual
2018 Amsterdam Municipal Council Forum for Democracy 1 14,753 3 Won
2019 Provincial Council of North Holland Forum for Democracy 15 7,509 9 Lost
2019 Provincial Council of Utrecht Forum for Democracy 14 6 Lost
2019 Senate Forum for Democracy 3 12 Won
2021 House of Representatives JA21 30[a] 11,396 3 Lost [16]
2022 Amsterdam Municipal Council JA21 1 11,821 2 Won
2023 Senate JA21 1 3 Won
2023 House of Representatives JA21 2 10,132 1 Lost [17]

Notes

  1. ^ Nanninga participated as lijstduwer.

References

  1. ^ "Eerste Kamer der Staten-Generaal - Nanninga terug in Eerste Kamer in Fractie-Nanninga". www.eerstekamer.nl. Retrieved 2021-03-20.
  2. ^ Van ijsjes verkopen naar politiek: de carrière van FvD-kopstuk Annabel Nanninga, RTL Z, 29 maart 2019. Gearchiveerd op 15 mei 2019.
  3. ^ Vivienne Groenewoud (2016-08-16). "In de nieuwste VROUW glossy - Annabel Nanninga (38): Ik word regelmatig bedreigd". Vrouw.nl. Vrouw (De Telegraaf). Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 2017-11-01.
  4. ^ "Annabel Nanninga stapt over van Jalta.nl naar TPO.nl". ThePostOnline. 14 December 2015. Archived from the original on 1 June 2019.
  5. ^ Elif Isitman (2017-10-22). "Columnist Annabel Nanninga wordt FvD-lijsttrekker in Amsterdam - Elsevierweekblad.nl". Elsevierweekblad.nl. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 2017-11-01.
  6. ^ "Columniste Nanninga lijsttrekker Forum voor Democratie in Amsterdam". NOS. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 2017-11-01.
  7. ^ Proces-verbaal van de verkiezingsuitslag van de provinciale staten van Utrecht
  8. ^ Berkhout (FVD) en Keunen (VVD) beëdigd als lid van de Eerste Kamer, eerstekamer.nl, 26 oktober 2020. Gearchiveerd op 3 maart 2021.
  9. ^ Redactie (2020-11-26). "Eerdmans, Nanninga, Pouw en Vlaardingerbroek weg bij FvD". Trouw (in Dutch). Retrieved 2023-02-23.
  10. ^ Reve, Jonathan van het (2018-03-12). "Net als bij de IS-tweet van Nida was bij antisemitische tweets van Annabel Nanninga niemand geïnteresseerd in de context". de Volkskrant (in Dutch). Retrieved 2023-02-23.
  11. ^ "'Ik ben het probleem niet'". NIW (in Dutch). 2019-03-29. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
  12. ^ Het is weer lente! De Grote Oversteek begint, Geenstijl, 9 april 2014. Gearchiveerd op 11 augustus 2021.
  13. ^ Korteweg, Ariejan (2017-07-22). "Annabel Nanninga: 'Ik nam een asielzoeker in huis'". de Volkskrant (in Dutch). Retrieved 2023-03-03.
  14. ^ Verbeek, Fleur (2020-08-07). "Nanninga (FVD) haalt hard uit naar VVD na gruwelijke aanval op lesbische asielzoeker - EW". EWmagazine.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2023-03-03.
  15. ^ Van ijsjes verkopen naar politiek: de carrière van FvD-kopstuk Annabel Nanninga, RTL Z, 29 maart 2019. Gearchiveerd op 15 mei 2019.
  16. ^ "Proces-verbaal verkiezingsuitslag Tweede Kamer 2021" [Report of the election results House of Representatives 2021] (PDF). Dutch Electoral Council (in Dutch). 29 March 2021. pp. 151–152. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
  17. ^ "Proces-verbaal van de uitslag van de verkiezing van de Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal 2023 d.d. 4 december 2023" [Report of the results of the election of the House of Representatives on 4 December 2023] (PDF). Dutch Electoral Council (in Dutch). 4 December 2023. pp. 115–116. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
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