Léon de Jong

Leon Willem Evert "Léon" de Jong (born August 31, 1982 in Gouda) is a Dutch politician and singer and a former musician and salesman. As a member of the Party for Freedom (Partij voor de Vrijheid) he was an MP from June 17, 2010 to September 19, 2012. He focused on matters of social affairs, employment and infrastructure.

Before entering politics, De Jong worked in retail and finance and was part of the pop rock singing duo In Front, before entering into politics in 2010.

De Jong currently leads the Party for Freedom in the city council of The Hague, where he serves as council member.

Personal

De Jong has a relationship with PVV parliament member Fleur Agema with whom he has a daughter.

References

(Dutch) Parlement.com biography

Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, 2010–2012

House of Representatives, 17 June 2010 - 19 September 2012

People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD - 31)	Blok Aptroot Van Ark Azmani Van Beek Berckmoes-Duindam De Boer Bosman Ten Broeke Van der Burg De Caluwé <Dezentjé Hamming-Bluemink> Dijkhoff Elias Harbers Hennis-Plasschaert Houwers Huizing <De Krom> Leegte De Liefde Lodders Lucas Van Miltenburg Mulder Neppérus <Nicolaï> Van Nieuwenhuizen <Rutte> Schaart <Schippers> Snijder-Hazelhoff Van der Steur Straus Taverne <Teeven> <Weekers> Ziengs <Zijlstra>

Labour Party (PvdA - 30)	Samsom Albayrak Arib Bouwmeester Çelik <Cohen> Van Dam Van Dekken Dijksma Dijsselbloem Dikkers Eijsink Groot Hamer Heijnen Hilkens Jacobi Jadnanansing Klijnsma <Kraneveldt> Kuiken De Lange <Leerdam> Marcouch Monasch Plasterk Recourt Smeets <Spekman> Timmermans Van der Veen Verbeet (Speaker) Vermeij Wolbert

Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA - 21)	Van Haersma Buma <Atsma> <Bijleveld> <Bijsterveldt> Biskop Blanksma-van den Heuvel Van Bochove Bruins Slot Çörüz Ferrier Haverkamp Van Hijum Holtackers <De Jager> <Joldersma> <Klink> Knops Koopmans Koppejan Omtzigt Ormel De Rouwe Smilde Sterk Van Toorenburg Uitslag <Verburg> <Verhagen> Van der Werf

Party for Freedom (PVV - 20)	Wilders Agema Beertema Van den Besselaar Bontes Bosma Van Dijck Dille Driessen Elissen Fritsma Gerbrands Graus Helder De Jong Van Klaveren Lucassen De Mos De Roon <Sharpe> Van Vliet

Socialist Party (SP - 15)	Roemer Bashir Van Bommel Van Dijk Van Gerven Gesthuizen Irrgang Jansen <Janssen> Karabulut Kooiman Leijten Van Raak Smits Ulenbelt De Wit

Democrats 66 (D66 - 10)	Pechtold Berndsen Dijkstra Hachchi Van der Ham Koolmees Koşer Kaya Schouw Van Veldhoven Verhoeven

GreenLeft (GL - 10)	Sap <Van den Berge> Braakhuis Dibi El Fassed Van Gent Grashoff <Halsema> Klaver Peters Van Tongeren Voortman

ChristianUnion (CU - 5)	Slob Ortega <Rouvoet> Schouten Voordewind Wiegman

Reformed Political Party (SGP - 2)	Van der Staaij Dijkgraaf

Party for the Animals (PvdD - 2)	Thieme <Hazekamp> Ouwehand

Independent 1 (I1 - 2)	Kortenoeven Hernandez

Independent 2 (I2 - 1)	Brinkman

Independent 3 (I3 - 1)	Van Bemmel

Bold signifies the Parliamentary leader (first mentioned) Bold also signifies the Speaker Brackets () signifies a temporary absent member Italics signifies a temporary member <> signifies a member who prematurely left this House of Representatives See also: Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, 2012–present See also: Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, 2006–2010 See also: Members of the Senate of the Netherlands, 2011–2015

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