Bastiaan Jan "Bas Jan" van Bochove (born 3 October 1950) is a Dutch politician and former educator serving as Acting Mayor of

Weesp Weesp () is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and an urban area in the Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality of Amsterdam in the Provinces of the netherlands, province of North Holland, Netherlands. It had a populati ...

since 2014. A member of the

Christian Democratic Appeal The Christian Democratic Appeal ( , CDA) is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in the Netherlands. Formed as a federation in 1975 by the Catholic People's Party, the Anti-Revolutionary Party, and the Christian Historical ...

(CDA), he was a member of the

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from 2002 to 2012 with a brief interruption in 2010. As a parliamentarian, he focused on matters of

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, Kingdom relations and

education Education is the transmission of knowledge and skills and the development of character traits. Formal education occurs within a structured institutional framework, such as public schools, following a curriculum. Non-formal education als ...

Biography

Career

Elected to the

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Lelystad Lelystad () is a Dutch Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality and the capital city of the province of Flevoland in the central Netherlands. The city, built on reclaimed land, was founded in 1967 and was named after Cornelis Lely, who en ...

in 1982, Van Bochove presided over the party group from 1985 until 1990, when he was appointed as an

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, a position he retained until 2002. After the 2010 general election, in which the Christian Democrats lost 20 seats, he lost his position as a member of the

. He regained it in the following months, after parliamentarians resigned to join the

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. In 2012, he left the House of Representatives. Van Bochove was the last mayor of Weesp from 2014 until the municipal merger with

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finalized on 24 March 2022. He was the longest-serving acting mayor of

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with a term of 95 months and 23 days.

References

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Parlement.com biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bochove, Bas Jan Van 1950 births Living people Aldermen in Flevoland People from Lelystad Christian Democratic Appeal politicians Dutch educators Mayors in North Holland People from Weesp Protestant Church Christians from the Netherlands Dutch MPs 2010–2012 Dutch MPs 2006–2010 People from Ermelo, Netherlands Christian Democratic Appeal MPs