Mariëtte Patijn | |
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| Member of theHouse of Representatives | |
| Assumed office 9 December 2023 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1966-12-29)29 December 1966 (age 59) Voorburg, Netherlands |
| Party | Labour |
| Parent | Schelto Patijn (father) |
Mariëtte Patijn (born 29 December 1966) is a Dutch politician representing theLabour Party (PvdA) who was elected to theHouse of Representatives in the2023 Dutch general election.[1]
Patijn is the daughter ofSchelto Patijn (1936–2007), who served as a member of parliament and as the mayor of Amsterdam on behalf of the Labour Party. After not completing several studies, she started her career as a secretary for theFederation of Dutch Trade Unions (FNV). She rose to the rank of union leader in her twenties, conducting negotiations forcollective bargaining agreements, and later became the federation's vice chair and terms of employment coordinator. Patijn left the FNV in 2018 and subsequently started working for the Netherlands Labour Authority. She has told that she found the union's involvement too broad and that she preferred to focus on labour and wages.[2]
She ran for the House of Representative in the2023 general election as the sixth candidate on the sharedGroenLinks–PvdA list and was elected. Patijn advocated for reducing flexible contracts, saying that fixed contracts would ensure more corporate earnings would go to wages rather than profits.[2] Her focus in the House is on labor, income, and labor migration (formerly also integration).[3]
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| Year | Body | Party | Pos. | Votes | Result | Ref. | ||
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| Party seats | Individual | |||||||
| 2023 | House of Representatives | GroenLinks–PvdA | 6 | 11,388 | 25 | Won | [5] | |
| 2025 | House of Representatives | GroenLinks–PvdA | 14 | 3,404 | 20 | Won | [6] | |
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