Melis van de Groep (born 4 March 1958 in

Bunschoten Bunschoten () is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht. It lies about 7 km north of Amersfoort. Its territory comprises the original municipality of Bunschoten (created in 1204 by the bishop of Utrecht) a ...

) is a Dutch politician of the

Reformed Political League The Reformed Political LeagueTranslation used by Rudy Andeweg, Andeweg and Irwin in ''Governance and Politics of the Netherlands'' (2002: 45) (, GPV) was an orthodox Protestant list of political parties in the Netherlands, political party in the ...

(GPV) and his successor the

ChristianUnion The Christian Union ( ; CU) is a Christian democratic political party in the Netherlands. The CU is a centrist party, maintaining more progressive stances on economic, immigration and environmental issues while holding more socially conservative ...

(ChristenUnie). Since 2006 he has been

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of Bunschoten. Van de Groep was a municipal councillor as well as an

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 ...

of Bunschoten, and a member of the provincial parliament of

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between 2001 and 2007. He belongs to the

Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Liberated) The Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Liberated) () was an orthodox Calvinist federation of churches. This church body arose in 1944 out of the so-called Liberation (') from the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands, when many pastors and me ...

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www.burgemeesterbunschoten.nl
1958 births Living people Aldermen in Utrecht (province) Christian Union (Netherlands) politicians Dutch civil servants Mayors in Utrecht (province) Members of the Provincial Council of Utrecht People from Bunschoten Reformed Churches (Liberated) Christians from the Netherlands Reformed Political League politicians {{Netherlands-mayor-stub