Tonny "Ton" Alblas (24 May 1940 – 21 August 2015) was a Dutch politician, he served as member of the

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between 2002 and 2003 for the

Pim Fortuyn List The Pim Fortuyn List ( nl, Lijst Pim Fortuyn, LPF) was a list of political parties in the Netherlands, political party in the Netherlands named after its eponymous founder Pim Fortuyn, a former university professor and political columnist. The p ...

Career

Alblas was born on 24 May 1940 in

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, Spain. He completed his Hogere Burgerschool education in Eindhoven and Harderwijk. Alblas studied urban planning at the

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until 1972. He subsequently worked as civil servant for the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management until 1995. Afterwards Alblas worked as an independent advisor until 2000. For the 2002 parliamentary elections Alblas was placed as number 21 on the party list for the

. He gained a seat in the

and was a member between 23 May 2002 and 30 January 2003. Shortly after becoming member Alblas hit a photojournalist after a heated Pim Fortuyn List fraction debate. Alblas promised to compensate any damages. Only a couple of months after the elections, the government, which included the Pim Fortuyn List, fell. In the subsequent

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Alblas was not re-elected. He decided to retire afterwards. In the last years of his life Alblas was an advisor to the Leefbaar Leiden party, a local party in

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. During this period he advised Leefbaar Leiden on how to protest against a planned Islamic centre. Alblas died on 21 August 2015 in

, aged 75.

References

External links

*
Parlement.com biography
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