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Exactly two weeks after the elections, the new House of Representatives was installed today. All 150 elected MPs have taken the oath or affirmation and can now get to work.
With a “So help me God Almighty” or a “This I declare and promise” they have sworn that they have not and will not be bribed, that they will adhere to the Constitution and that they will do their work well.
Of the 150 MPs, 55 are completely new, the rest have already dealt with this task before. But they too were reinstalled.
More women
The new Chamber has 65 women and 84 men. One member is non-binary. That is Ines Kostic of the Party for the Animals, who was also a Member of Parliament recently.
Never before have there been so many women in the House of Representatives. They now amount to 43 percent, which means that men still have the majority.
On average, members of the House of Representatives are increasingly younger. In the old House of Representatives, the average age was 45 years. That is now 44 years.
The youngest member of Parliament is Etkin Armut (27) of the CDA. She was a municipal councilor in Groningen. She was number 18 on the candidate list and her party won 18 seats, so she had an exciting election evening, she recently said in Rondje Binnenhof.
Seventh time
The eldest is Raymond de Roon (73). He has been a Member of Parliament for the PVV since that party first won seats in 2006. Today he made the promise for the seventh time.
The vast majority of MPs come from South Holland (48) or North Holland (29), followed by Gelderland and Utrecht (both 12).
Among the MPs who have now been installed are former ministers of the outgoing Schoof cabinet, including Marjolein Faber (PVV) and Ingrid Coenradie (now JA21).
But there are also sitting ministers, such as Eelco Heinen, Ruben Brekelmans and Vincent Karremans of the VVD and Mona Keijzer and Femke Wiersma of the BBB. So for the time being they have a dual function.
The new MPs have now taken their seats. It may also have been a bit of a search for the veterans.
Because the layout of the plenary hall has also changed. The PVV and Forum for Democracy are in the rightmost box. 50Plus has been placed in the far left box with the SP and GroenLinks-PvdA.
Just like after the previous elections, there are fifteen factions in the House of Representatives. NSC has disappeared, but in its place 50Plus has returned after four years.
