Jan de Wit | |
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| Member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands | |
| In office 19 May 1998 (1998-05-19) – 1 April 2014 (2014-04-01) | |
| Parliamentary leader -Socialist Party Senate of the Netherlands | |
| In office 13 June 1995 (1995-06-13) – 19 May 1998 (1998-05-19) | |
| Member of the Senate | |
| In office 13 June 1995 (1995-06-13) – 19 May 1998 (1998-05-19) | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Johannes Marijnus Antonius Maria de Wit (1945-05-10)10 May 1945 (age 80) Zevenbergen, Netherlands |
| Political party | Socialist Party (Socialistische Partij - SP) |
| Spouse | Riet de Wit |
| Residence(s) | Heerlen, Netherlands |
| Alma mater | Tilburg University (LLM -Public law) |
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| Website | (in Dutch)Socialist Party website |
Johannes Marijnus Antonius Maria "Jan"de Wit (born 10 May 1945) is a former Dutch politician and lawyer. As a member of theSocialist Party (Socialistische Partij) he was anMP from 19 May 1998 to 1 April 2014. He focused on matters ofjudiciary andaliens policy. From 1995 to 1998, he was aSenator.
de Wit studiedpublic law atTilburg University. For a brief time, he worked as a lawyer inEindhoven and thereafter for many years inMaastricht andHeerlen.
In 1972, he joined the Socialist Party, which had just been founded in 1971. From 1972 to 1996, he was a local party executive, and from 1988 to 1992, he was also a party executive on the national level. Furthermore, he was an SPcouncillor of Heerlen from 1982 to 1995 and chairman of SP'sthink tank foundation until 1997.
In 1995, de Wit was elected into theDutch Senate; he was the sole representative of the SP until 1998. In 1998, he exchanged the Senate for theDutch House of Representatives.
As an MP, de Wit was a member of theparliamentary inquiry onconstruction, a member of thePresidium and former chairman of thestanding committee forsocial affairs andemployment. Since 2010, he has been chairman of the parliamentary inquiry on thefinancial system.
From 24 June 2009 to October 2010, de Wit was the chairman of theTemporary Committee on Financial System Inquiry [nl], which was to investigate the causes of the2008 financial crisis.
de Wit is married toRiet de Wit [nl], who is an SPalderwoman in Heerlen. They have three children. Raised as a Catholic, he turned non-religious later on.
