Tofik Dibi

Tofik Dibi
Member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands
Incumbent
Assumed office November 30, 2006
Personal details
Born	Tovek Dibi November 19, 1980 (1980-11-19) (age 31) Vlissingen, Netherlands
Political party	GreenLeft (GroenLinks - GL)
Spouse(s)	Single
Residence	Amsterdam, Netherlands
Religion	Muslim
Website	(Dutch) GreenLeft website

Tovek (Tofik) Dibi (born November 19, 1980 in Vlissingen) is a Dutch politician for GreenLeft (GroenLinks). Since November 30, 2006 he has been an MP. He focuses on matters of criminal law, safety, youth, family and integration.

Biography

Dibi is of Moroccan descent. He is studying Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam, specializing in cinema. He combined his study with activities in the Marxist Turkish Workers' Union in the Netherlands and in his own neighbourhood Bos en Lommer in Amsterdam. Together with the Trotskyist International Socialists, he initiated the national demonstration Stop Bush! organising protests when George W. Bush visited the Netherlands in 2005 and the national action committee Enough is Enough which focused on the discrimination against muslims.

In September 2006 he unexpectedly came in seventh on the list of GreenLeft for the 2006 general elections and was chosen in the House of Representatives in November 2006. The GreenLeft screening commission called him "a political talent", to Dibi's own amazement, for he had not considered his candidacy all that seriously.^[1] At the time he was the youngest member of parliament. Because of his background he concentrates on improving opportunities for young allochtone (migrant) people in the larger cities.

He was arrested and later released on January 13, 2007, whilst pamphleteering against Dutch MP Geert Wilders with members of the International Socialists.^[2] Their posters called Wilders "an extremist" and "harmful for society".^[3]

Dibi is openly gay.http://forums.ansaar.nl/nieuws-actualiteiten/50028-tofik-dibi-eindelijk-uit-de-kast.html

See also

• List of Dutch politicians

Sources

• (Dutch) Parlement.com biography

1. ^ Interview with Tofik Dibi at Spunk.nl
2. ^ Polarisatie en radicalisering in Nederland - Een verkenning van de stand van zaken in 2009, p. 106 [a government report on radical organisations]
3. ^ "Weer anti-Wildersbetogers opgepakt". NOS Nieuws. 2008-01-13. http://www.nos.nl/nos/artikelen/2008/01/art000001C855F41169C0AB.html. Retrieved 2008-01-13. 

External links

• (Dutch) House of Representatives biography

Persondata
Name	Dibi, Tofik
Alternative names	Dibi, Tovek
Short description	Dutch politician
Date of birth	November 19, 1980
Place of birth	Vlissingen, Netherlands
Date of death
Place of death