Tiny Kox

Tiny Kox


Senate leader - Socialist Party Senate of the Netherlands
Incumbent
Assumed office June 10, 2003
Member of the Senate
Incumbent
Assumed office June 10, 2003
Personal details
Born	Martinus Josephus Maria Kox (1953-05-06) May 6, 1953 Zeelst, Netherlands
Nationality	Dutch
Political party	Socialist Party (Socialistische Partij - SP)
Relations	Married
Residence	Tilburg, Netherlands
Alma mater	Tilburg University (LLB)
Occupation	Politician
Website	(Dutch) Socialist Party website

Martinus Josephus Maria "Tiny" Kox (born May 6, 1953 in Zeelst) is a Dutch politician. As a member of the Socialist Party (SP) he has been a member of the Senate as well as Senate leader since June 10, 2003.

Biography

Kox studied law at Tilburg University. From 1975 to 1978 he worked in Tilburg law centre, in 1978 at the municipality of Oosterhout, and from 1978 to 1982 again he was a member of the Tilburg law centre. From 1981 to 1994 he was editor-in-chief of Tribune, SP's member party magazine, and from 1982 to 1999 he was SP faction leader of the municipal council of Tilburg. Furthermore, he has been exercising several jobs in the party executive.

Since June 2003 Kox has been a member of the Senate. He is also chairman of the Party of the European Left in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and a member employee of SP's policy institute.

At the general elections of 2006 Kox was elected as a member in the House of Representatives but did not take his member seat, in order to continue serving in the Senate. ^[1]

References

↑ Tiny Kox blijft SP in Senaat leiden, Website SP, 24 november 2006.

(Dutch) Parlement.com biography

External links

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(Dutch) Senate biography

Members of the Senate of the Netherlands, 2015–present

Senate, 9 June 2015 - present

People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD: 13)	Jorritsma Broekers-Knol (President) Bruijn Duthler De Grave <Hermans> Huijbregts-Schiedon Van Kappen Knip Krikke Schaap Schouwenaar Swagerman Van de Ven

Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA: 12)	Brinkman Atsma Van Bijsterveld Flierman Hoekstra Van Kesteren Knapen Martens Oomen Van Rij Rombouts De Vries-Leggedoor

Democrats 66 (D66: 10)	De Graaf Backer Bredenoord Engels Pijlman Prast Rinnooy Kan Schaper Schnabel Stienen

Party for Freedom (PVV: 9)	Faber Dercksen Van Hattem Kok Kops Markuszower Popken Van Strien Van Weerdenburg

Socialist Party (SP: 9)	Kox Van Apeldoorn Don Elzinga Gerkens Köhler Meijer Ruers Wezel

Labour Party (PvdA: 8)	Barth Beuving Nooren Postema Schrijver Sent Verheijen Vreeman

GreenLeft (GL: 4)	Strik Ganzevoort Lindmeijer Vos

ChristianUnion (CU: 3)	Kuiper Bikker Ester

Party for the Animals (PvdD: 2)	Koffeman Teunissen

Reformed Political Party (SGP: 2)	Schalk Van Dijk

50PLUS (50+: 2)	Nagel Van Rooijen

Independent Senate Group (OSF: 1)	Ten Hoeve

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

Members of the Senate of the Netherlands, 2011–2015

Senate, 7 June 2011 - 8 June 2015

People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD: 16)	Hermans Beckers Bröcker Broekers-Knol (President) Bruijn Dupuis Duthler De Graaf De Grave Huijbregts-Schiedon Van Kappen Kneppers-Heynert Knip <Van Rey> Schaap Schouwenaar Swagerman

Labour Party (PvdA: 14)	Barth Beuving Duivesteijn Ter Horst Koning Koole Linthorst <Meurs> <Noten> Postema <Putters> Schrijver Sent Sylvester Vlietstra De Vries <Witteveen> Van Zandbrink

Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA: 11)	Brinkman Van Bijsterveld Essers Flierman Franken Hoekstra Van der Linden Lokin-Sassen Martens Terpstra De Vries-Leggedoor

Party for Freedom (PVV: 10)	Faber Van Beek Van Dijk Frijters-Klijnen <De Graaf> <De Graaff> <Klever> Kok Kops Popken Reynaers Sørensen Van Strien

Socialist Party (SP: 8)	Kox Elzinga Gerkens Meijer Quik-Schuijt Reuten Ruers Slagter-Roukema <Smaling> <Vliegenthart>

Democrats 66 (D66: 5)	Van Boxtel Backer Engels De Graaf Scholten

GreenLeft (GL: 5)	Thissen De Boer Ganzevoort Strik Vos

Christian Union (CU: 2)	Kuiper Ester

Reformed Political Party (SGP: 1)	Holdijk

50PLUS (50+: 1)	Nagel

Party for the Animals (PvdD: 1)	Koffeman

Independent Senate Group (OSF: 1)	De Lange

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

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