Leen Verbeek

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name = Leen Verbeek

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caption = Leen Verbeek, 2007.
birth_date = 1955
birth_place = Leiderdorp, The Netherlands.
residence = Purmerend
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office = Mayor of Purmerend
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term_start = 2003
term_end = present
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party = PvdA
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website = http://www.leenverbeek.nl/
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Leen Verbeek (born Leiderdorp, 1955) is a Dutch entrepreneur and politician. He is a member of the Dutch Labour Party (PvdA). He has served as mayor of Purmerend since April 2003. [nl icon http://www.nieuwsbank.nl/inp/2003/03/28/R167.htm] [nl icon [http://www.purmerend.nl/smartsite.dws?id=52415 Web site of the Mayor of Purmerend] ]

Verbeek spent his early years in Eindhoven. [nl icon http://www.leenverbeek.nl/artikel1.html] After the MULO (current-day VMBO) and a year of high school in the USA he attended the Academie voor Educatieve Arbeid in Baarn. He then started work as a young people worker in Leiden.

Ten years later Verbeek started his political career through many political institutions, ending up as alderman in Houten (1989-1996). Until he was chosen as mayor of Purmerend in 2003 he ran his own company.

On 18 December 2007 it was announced that Verbeek was a candidate for mayor of Eindhoven along with Rob van Gijzel [nl icon http://www.referendumeindhoven.nl/Leen_Verbeek] . A referendum was held on 23 January 2008, in which Verbeek scored 33% of the votes, but because the required number of voters was not met, the referendum was nullified and the decision was made in-house, which resulted in Rob van Gijzel being appointed mayor of Eindhoven. [nl icon http://www.leenverbeek.nl/default.htm]

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