Tineke Huizinga

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name =Johanna Catharina Huizinga-Heringa


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birth_date = Birth date and age|1960|2|16|df=y
birth_place =Dantumadeel, Netherlands
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office = State secretary for Transportation and Water Management
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term_start = 2007
term_end = present
office2 = Member of the Tweede Kamer
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term_start2 = 2002
term_end2 = 2007
party = ChristianUnion
religion = Netherlands Reformed Churches
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website = [http://www.tinekehuizinga.christenunie.nl/ www.tinekehuizinga.christenunie.nl]
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Johanna Catharina (Tineke) Huizinga-Heringa (Dantumadeel, 16 February 1960) is a Dutch politician. She was a member of parliament for the ChristianUnion from 2002 to 2007. Nowadays she is secretary of state for Transportation and Water Management.

Huizinga grew up in Amersfoort, both her parents were teachers. After attending gymnasium, she began to study law at the University of Utrecht. She became involved in the Christian student's association Ichtus, where she met her future husband. They married in 1982. After passing her candidate exams (roughly equivalent of a bachelor's degree), she stopped her studies and moved to Heerenveen. She became a housekeeper and mother of three children.

She volunteered as translator at a Christian foundation, Open Doors, which advocates the interest of persecuted Christians worldwide. She became involved in the cases of asylum seekers and refugees and worked as a volunteer for VluchtenlingenWerk Nederland. Because of her involvement with social and religious issues, the Reformatory Political Federation asked her to become their top candidate in Heerenveen for the 1998 municipal elections. She was elected into the Heerenveen municipal council.

In 2002 she was elected member of Tweede Kamer. She was elected on basis of preference votes. The ChristianUnion only got four seats and she was second candidate, but because so many voters voted for her she entered parliament at the cost of prominent GPV-leader Eimert van Middelkoop. She was member of the parliamentary research committee into the Srebrenica massacre. In the 2003 elections she was re-elected, again with preference votes, now at the cost of Leen van Dijke. She was fourth candidate and the ChristianUnion only got three seats. In parliament she had been occupied with foreign affairs, international development, migration, integration, spatial planning and the environment. She was secretary of the parliamentary party

As state secretary of transport and water management, Huizinga survived a vote of no confidence in April 2008 over the (supposedly failed) introduction of a MIFARE-based nationwide public transport payment system. [Keken, Kim van. "Huizinga overleeft motie van wantrouwen" "de Volkskrant", 17 April 2008, p.3]

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NAME=Huizinga-Herringa, Tineke
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=Dutch politician and state secretary of Transportation and Water Management
DATE OF BIRTH=16 February 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH=Dantumadeel, Netherlands
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