Rob Roos
Robert "Rob" Roos (born 2 August 1966) is a Dutch politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) between 2019 and 2024. He was a member of the JA21 political party from 2020-2023, after leaving Forum for Democracy (FvD) in 2020.[1]
Career
[edit]Roos worked in the telecoms industry before becoming active in politics. He briefly served in the States of South Holland from 28 March 2019 to 4 September 2019, in which he chaired the FvD group. He had been lijsttrekker in the 2019 provincial election.[2] In the 2019 European Parliament election, he was placed second on the list led by Derk Jan Eppink. In the 2019 Senate election, he was placed thirteenth on the list led by Henk Otten.
Roos later represented JA21 in a Netherlands seat in the EU Parliament.[3] He was vice-chair of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group.[3] In 2023, he participated in the second meeting of the Madrid Forum of the national conservative Spanish political party Vox in Lima, Peru.[4] He did not run for re-election in June 2024, and his term as MEP ended on 15 July 2024.[1][5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b MEP profile on europarl.europa.eu.
- ^ "Lijsttrekker FvD in Zuid-Holland verruilt provincie voor Europa", de Volkskrant (in Dutch), 13 August 2019.
- ^ a b "MEPs: Robert Roos". European Parliament. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
- ^ Staff, Willax. "II Encuentro Regional del Foro Madrid se realiza en Lima". Willax Televisión (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 May 2023.
- ^ "Proces-verbaal centraal stembureau uitslag verkiezing Europees Parlement Model P22-1" [Central electoral council report of the results of the election of the European Parliament Model P22-1] (PDF). Dutch Electoral Council (in Dutch). 19 June 2024. p. 54. Retrieved 25 July 2024.
External links
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Media related to Robert Roos at Wikimedia Commons
- (in Dutch) Parlement.com - biography
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