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Paul Marie Louis Frentrop (born 18 March 1954) is a Dutch politician, professor and journalist who has been a member of the
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for the
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(FvD) party from 2019 to 2022.


Biography

Frentrop studied psychology and business administration, obtaining a PhD in the latter in 2002. Until 1992, he worked as a financial editor for ''
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'' and later ''
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''. He has also worked as a columnist in other media, such as
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. From 2011 to 2014, he was a professor of corporate governance and capital markets at
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.


Political career

Frentrop has been a member of the Senate since 2019. In 2020 he wrote the book ''The havoc of ten years of Rutte'' with party leader
Thierry Baudet Thierry Henri Philippe Baudet (; born 28 January 1983) is a Dutch politician, author, and self-declared Conspiracy theory, conspiracy theorist. He is the founder and leader of the far-right Forum for Democracy (FvD), for which he has been a memb ...
. On December 31, 2020, it was announced that he is the first list successor in the House of Representatives to take the vacant seat of Theo Hiddema. He also previously served as interim chairman of the FvD in March 2017 while Baudet was being sworn in as a Member of Parliament. In 2020, he became the FvD's leader and spokesman in the Senate succeeding
Paul Cliteur Paul Bernard Cliteur (born 6 September 1955) is a Dutch professor of jurisprudence at Leiden University, as well as a politician, philosopher, writer, publicist and columnist. He is known for his conservative perspective, his atheism, his republ ...
. In March 2022, he defected from the FvD alongside Theo Hiddema in response to the FvD refusing to attend
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's address to the
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.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Frentrop, Paul 1954 births 21st-century Dutch politicians Living people Members of the Senate (Netherlands) Forum for Democracy (Netherlands) politicians Dutch writers 21st-century Dutch educators Dutch journalists Politicians from The Hague