Johannes Arnoldus "John" Jorritsma (born 16 September 1956) is a Dutch politician serving as

Mayor of Eindhoven This is a list of mayors of Eindhoven since 1920. In 2022, five surrounding municipalities merged into the municipality of Eindhoven, thus creating the municipality in its current shape. {, class = "wikitable sortable" , - ! Start ! End ! Mayor ! ...

from 13 September 2016 to 13 September 2022, and succeeded by

Jeroen Dijsselbloem Jeroen René Victor Anton Dijsselbloem (; born 29 March 1966) is a Dutch politician and economist serving as Mayor of Eindhoven since 13 September 2022, succeeding John Jorritsma ( VVD). A member of the Labour Party (PvdA), he has also been Cha ...

( PvdA). A member of the

People's Party for Freedom and Democracy The People's Party for Freedom and Democracy ( , VVD) is a Conservative liberalism, conservative-liberal List of political parties in the Netherlands, political party in the Netherlands. The VVD, whose forerunner was the Freedom Party (Netherl ...

(VVD), he previously was the

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of the

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between 16 May 2008 and 12 September 2016. A native of

Bolsward Bolsward (, West Frisian: ''Boalsert'') is a city in Súdwest-Fryslân in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. Bolsward has a population of just under 10,200. It is located 10 km W.N.W. of Sneek. History The town is founded on th ...

, Jorritsma was a member of the

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from 1994 to 1998 and Mayor of

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between 1997 and 2002.

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