Bart Snels | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Snels in 2020 | |
| Member of theDutch House of Representatives | |
| In office 23 March 2017 – 26 October 2021 | |
| Succeeded by | Suzanne Kröger |
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| Born | Bartholomeus Adrianus Wilhelmus Snels (1966-01-06)6 January 1966 (age 60) Roosendaal, Netherlands |
| Party | GroenLinks(1991–2010; 2014–present) |
| Other political affiliations | D66(2012–2013) |
| Education | Catholic University BrabantUtrecht University (PhD) |
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Bartholomeus Adrianus Wilhelmus "Bart"Snels (born 6 January 1966) is a Dutch economist and politician. From 27 March 2017 to 26 October 2021 he was a member of theHouse of Representatives forGroenLinks. He was an editor atBuitenhof, political coordinator of the GroenLinks House of Representatives faction, director of theGroenLinks Scientific Bureau and political advisor and copywriter forJesse Klaver.
Snels studied general economics at theCatholic University Brabant. Between 1991 and 1993 he did his alternativemilitary service at the scientific bureau De Helling of GroenLinks. Between 1993 and 1996 he worked on a dissertation atUtrecht University.
Subsequently, Snels worked as a policy officer for public housing, economics and finance for the GroenLinks faction in the House of Representatives until 2001. In addition, between 1998 and 2001 he was a part-time assistant professor of economics at the Faculty of Public Administration at theUniversity of Twente. In 1999 he publishedPolitics in the Dutch Economy: The Economics of Institutional Interaction,[1] in which he investigated how thepolitical colour of theDutch cabinet influences developments in the Dutch economy, an adaptation of his dissertation.
Between 2001 and 2003 he worked as a coordinating policy officer and theme coordinator for social security and the labor market at theMinistry of Finance. He then worked atFEM Business between 2003 and 2004 as an editor ofmacroeconomics and economic policy.[2]
Between 2004 and 2010 he was director of bureau De Helling. As secretary, he participated in various program committees of GroenLinks, including the election program in 2006 and theparty platform, which was submitted to the party congress in 2008. He also worked on various publications, includingVrijheid als Ideaal ('Freedom as Ideal').[3] This book stimulated the debate within GroenLinks about a liberal course. Snels was an importantideologue within GroenLinks.[4] In 2009 he succeededTom van der Lee as head of information for the GroenLinks House of Representatives faction. He was succeeded as director of the scientific office byDick Pels [nl].
In 2011 Snels left GroenLinks. He was succeeded as political coordinator byRutger Groot Wassink [nl]. In September 2011, Snels became an independent publicist. In 2012 he wrote the bookHenk, Ingrid & Alexander, in whichD66 politicianAlexander Pechtold talks to people who voted for the right-wing populistParty for Freedom in the2010 elections. Snels was also a member of Pechtold's campaign team during the2012 elections.
In January 2014, Snels returned to journalism and became a senior editor atBuitenhof. Since 2015 he has worked again for the GroenLinks faction and became aspeechwriter. In the2017 House of Representatives elections, he was on the GroenLinks list in 9th place and was elected. He is the financial spokesperson for the faction. As a Member of Parliament, he submitted, among other things, the motion to institute a parliamentary inquiry into thebenefits affair.[5] The committee that was set up for this purpose concluded in its reportOngekend Onrecht ('Unknown Injustice') that the rule of law principles were being violated on a large scale, in the legislative, executive and judicial powers.
On 14 October 2021, he announced his departure from the House of Representatives as of October 27 that year. He did not agree with his party's extensive cooperation with thePvdA regarding the formation attempts for a new cabinet after theHouse of Representatives elections of March 2021.[6] In a letter toSpeaker of the HouseVera Bergkamp, Snels wrote that he saw this collaboration asvoter fraud.
Snels was appointedinspector general at the Taxes, Surcharges and Customs Inspectorate at the Ministry of Finance with effect from 1 February 2022 on the recommendation of MinisterHanke Bruins Slot of theInterior and Kingdom Relations.[7]
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