Ingrid Coenradie | |
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| State Secretary for Justice and Security | |
| Assumed office 2 July 2024 Serving with Teun Struycken | |
| Prime Minister | Dick Schoof |
| Minister | David van Weel |
| Member of theRotterdamMunicipal Council | |
| In office 16 March 2022 – 2024 | |
| Leader of the Livable Rotterdam | |
| In office July 2023 – 14 June 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Bart van Drunen |
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| Born | (1987-12-21)December 21, 1987 (age 37) Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| Political party | Livable Rotterdam PVV (2024–present) |
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Ingrid Coenradie (Dutch:[ˈɪŋɡrɪtkunˈraːdi]; born 21 December 1987) is a Dutch politician. On behalf of theParty for Freedom (PVV), she has served asState Secretary for Justice and Security in theSchoof cabinet since July 2024.
Coenradie was born inRotterdam, and she grew up in its southern district.[1] Her father worked as a music teacher, but he suddenly became deaf when Coenradie was twelve.[2][3] Her mother suffered a severecerebral infarction the same year.[1] Coenradie has openly discussed two sexual assaults in her teenage years. She has told that she was assaulted at the age of 13 by her boss at a sandwich shop and at the age of 18 by two men. Hercriminal complaint following the latter did not lead to a conviction.[3][4]
Coenradie was working as sales manager for an occupational health and safety service in 2022.[1] She was also a piano teacher, while on the municipal council.[3]
Coenradie joined the conservative-liberalPeople's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) in her teens. She left the party afterMark Rutte was chosen overRita Verdonk to lead the party in 2006, believing the VVD had moved too far to thepolitical left.[1] She later became a member ofLivable Rotterdam, and she started serving on the RotterdamMunicipal Council in 2022, with a focus on safety.[3] She stressed the importance of the police, citing her two sexual assaults, and she was in favor of permitting preventivefrisking at night in response to a series of incidents involving explosives.[3][1] Coenradie became her party'sparliamentary leader in July 2023.[3] She proposed to offer courses to youngstreet criminals and to help them start businesses, in order to give them a second chance. She explained that her break with the party's usual tough-on-crime stances was due to her strong belief in prevention.[2]
After the PVV,VVD,NSC, andBBB formed theSchoof cabinet, Coenradie was sworn in as State Secretary for Justice and Security on 2 July 2024. She was nominated by the PVV.[3][5] Her portfolio includes civic integration, prisons,probation service, fire brigade, regional disaster relief and crisis management, sexual offenses, and reforms of emergency powers legislation.[6] In response to a personnel shortage in prisons, Coenradie examined the possibility of re-opening a closed prison inAlmere and incarcerating convicts inEstonian prisons, despite significant opposition to the latter in parliament. She also shortened sentences for most detainees by three days. When she was considering lengthening this period to two weeks, PVV party leaderGeert Wilders flatly rejected the suggestion.[7][8]
Coenradie battled and survivedcervical cancer twice.[2]
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| Preceded by | State Secretary for Justice and Security 2024–present | Incumbent |
