E.M. (Edson) Olf (born 1986) is a Dutch politician for

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party

BIJ1 BIJ1 (; ), formerly known as Article 1 (), is a political party in the Netherlands. It was founded in Amsterdam in 2016 by Sylvana Simons, a politician who was formerly briefly connected to another party, Denk (political party), Denk. Edson Olf ...

. He has been

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of BIJ1 since 16 September 2023. Currently living in

Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , ; ; ) is the second-largest List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city in the Netherlands after the national capital of Amsterdam. It is in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of South Holland, part of the North S ...

, Olf works as a

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. He is also deputy chairman of the Rotterdam Cool-Scheepvaartkwartier-Stadsdriehoek district council.

Electoral history

References

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