Jannie Visscher (born 8 November 1961) is a Dutch

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for the

Socialist Party Socialist Party is the name of many different political parties around the world. All of these parties claim to uphold some form of socialism, though they may have very different interpretations of what "socialism" means. Statistically, most of th ...

(SP). From 2006 to 2014, she was

alderman An alderman is a member of a Municipal government, municipal assembly or council in many jurisdictions founded upon English law with similar officials existing in the Netherlands (wethouder) and Belgium (schepen). The term may be titular, denotin ...

Groningen Groningen ( , ; ; or ) is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen (province), Groningen province in the Netherlands. Dubbed the "capital of the north", Groningen is the largest place as well as the economic and cultural centre of ...

. From 2014 to 2018, she was alderman in

Eindhoven Eindhoven ( ; ) is a city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality of the Netherlands, located in the southern Provinces of the Netherlands, province of North Brabant, of which it is the largest municipality, and is also locat ...

. Since December 2019, she has been

party chairman In politics, a party chair (often party chairperson/-man/-woman or party president) is the presiding officer of a political party. The nature and importance of the position differs from country to country, and also between political parties. Th ...

of the SP.

Biography

She studied

agricultural Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created f ...

environmental science at the '' Rijks Hogere Landbouwschool'' in Groningen. In 2006, she became alderman in that city on behalf of the SP for

health care Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement or maintenance of health via the preventive healthcare, prevention, diagnosis, therapy, treatment, wikt:amelioration, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other disability, physic ...

, the elderly, urban management and environment. After the 2010 municipal elections, she was given the portfolios of

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and health care, the elderly,

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, urban management,

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and

animal welfare Animal welfare is the quality of life and overall well-being of animals. Formal standards of animal welfare vary between contexts, but are debated mostly by animal welfare groups, legislators, and academics. Animal welfare science uses measures ...

, recreation, and

integration Integration may refer to: Biology *Multisensory integration *Path integration * Pre-integration complex, viral genetic material used to insert a viral genome into a host genome *DNA integration, by means of site-specific recombinase technology, ...

and

emancipation Emancipation generally means to free a person from a previous restraint or legal disability. More broadly, it is also used for efforts to procure Economic, social and cultural rights, economic and social rights, civil and political rights, po ...

. In May 2014 she became alderman in the municipality of Eindhoven with the portfolios youth, education,

special education Special education (also known as special-needs education, aided education, alternative provision, exceptional student education, special ed., SDC, and SPED) is the practice of educating students in a way that accommodates their individual di ...

, housing of educational institutions, traffic, transport, and

mobility Mobility may refer to: Social sciences and humanities * Economic mobility, ability of individuals or families to improve their economic status * Geographic mobility, the measure of how populations and goods move over time * Mobilities, a conte ...

. In the 2018 municipal elections, Visscher was elected as a councilor in the municipality of Eindhoven. In the

2019 European Parliament election The 2019 European Parliament election was held in the European Union (EU) between 23 and 26 May 2019. It was the ninth parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979. A total of 751 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) we ...

, Visscher was placed second on the SP's list of candidates, which was not enough to be elected. Shortly afterwards she applied for the vacant position of national party chairman. During the party congress on 14 December 2019, she was elected party chairman of the Socialist Party.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Visscher, Jannie 1961 births Living people 21st-century Dutch politicians 21st-century Dutch women politicians Aldermen in North Brabant Aldermen of Groningen Chairmen of the Socialist Party (Netherlands) Municipal councillors of Eindhoven People from Dedemsvaart Socialist Party (Netherlands) politicians