Independent Senate Group

The Onafhankelijke Senaatsfractie ( Dutch for "Independent Senate Group ") is a fraction in the First Chamber of the Dutch Parliament. There is a delegate to represent the interests of smaller parties. " Senate " is an unofficial term for the First Chamber.

Origins and history

Members of the First Chamber are elected by the provincial legislatures. Because some smaller parties alone do not have enough votes for its own MPs, they choose together a list whose representatives occur in the first chamber as Independent Senate Group. This first took place in 1995. At that time, Marten Bierman of the micro Party De Groenen was (not to be confused with Groen Links ) selected in the First Chamber. Bierman was re- elected in 1999, and in the elections of 2003 and 2007, Henk ten Hoeve from the Fryske Nasjonale Partij ( Frisian National Party ) were elected. Since 2011 Kees de Lange (of 50PLUS ) OSF Senator. The Group has so far consisted of only one deputy each. Since the First Chamber de facto much less power than the second, and as the deputies are only working part-time, the influence of the OSF is low in every respect.

Elections, supporters and objectives

In the elections to the First Chamber on 29 May 2007, the list of OSF with the liberal parties Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Démocratie and Democraten 66 is a combined list received in order to exploit residual voices better. The OSF received votes from Groningen, Friesland, Utrecht, Noord -Holland, Zuid -Holland, Zeeland, Noord- Brabant and Limburg. 2011 were not enough for the provincial voices of the previous OSF parties out for a seat. Therefore, one set Kees de Lange of the relatively successful seniors party 50PLUS ranked one of the common list.

Behind the OSF are mainly regional parties from whom the Fryske Nasjonale Partij is the most important. Also, some remaining regional divisions of Leefbar Nederland have supported the OSF list. As " members of the OSF " named the site in April 2013:

  • Friesland: Fryske Nasjonale Partij ( FNP ), Provincial concern Fryslân ( PBF )
  • Friesland / Groningen / Drenthe: Partij voor het Noorden ( PvhN )
  • Drenthe: Onafhankelijke Partij Drenthe (OPD ), Drents Belang ( DB)
  • Utrecht: Utrecht Platform Local partijen (PLU)
  • Noord -Holland: Ouderen Partij Noord-Holland ( OPNH )
  • Zuid -Holland: Platform Local partijen Zuid-Holland ( PLP)
  • Zeeland: Partij voor Zeeland ( PvZ )
  • Limburg: Partij Nieuw Limburg ( PNL)

According to the website looks the OSF their task is to support the work of the First Chamber in an independent manner, to create better conditions for provincial parties to carry out scientific research and to structure the political culture and structure. The latter done in the knowledge that political groups should be those planes active at the municipal and provincial level, and not subdivisions of state-wide parties. The Wetenschappelijk Bureau OSF are four times annually publishes the magazine Locomotie. There is a party office and a five -member board.

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