Janna Fennechien "Janneke" Snijder-Hazelhoff (born 26 December 1952) is a Dutch

farmer A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock. A farmer m ...

and politician. As a member of the

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(Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie) she was an MP from 1999 to 2002 and from 3 June 2003 to 19 September 2012. She focused on matters of

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, food safety,

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, infrastructure and

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. From 14 November 2013 to 1 January 2018 she was acting mayor of

Bellingwedde Bellingwedde () was a municipality with a population of in the province Groningen in the northeast of the Netherlands. Bellingwedde was established in 1968, when the municipalities of Bellingwolde and Wedde had merged. It contained the villages ...

, and acting mayor of

Oldebroek Oldebroek () is a municipality and a town in the province of Gelderland Gelderland (), also known as Guelders () in English, is a province of the Netherlands, occupying the centre-east of the country. With a total area of of which is water, i ...

from 9 July 2018 to 3 October 2019. Snijder-Hazelhoff was a member of the

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Termunten Termunten () is a village in the Dutch province of Groningen. It is a part of the municipality of Eemsdelta, and lies about 33 km east of Groningen. Termunten was an independent municipality until 1990, when it was merged with Delfzijl. H ...

from 1982 to 1990 (on behalf of Termunten Gemeente Belangen from 1986 to 1990), a member of the municipal council of

Delfzijl Delfzijl (; gos, Delfsiel) is a city and former municipality with a population of 25,651 in the province of Groningen in the northeast of the Netherlands. Delfzijl was a sluice between the Delf and the Ems, which became fortified settlement in ...

from 1990 to 2000 as well as an

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of this municipality from 1998 to 2000. She was also a member of the States-Provincial of Groningen from 1992 to 1999.

References

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Parlement.com biography

External links

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People's Party for Freedom and Democracy website
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