Ernst Ariël Cramer (born June 26, 1960 in Amersfoort

Amersfoort

Amersfoort is a municipality and the second largest city of the province of Utrecht in central Netherlands. The city is growing quickly but has a well-preserved and protected medieval centre. Amersfoort is one of the largest railway junctions in the country, because of its location on two of the...

) is a Dutch

Netherlands

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 former politician

Politician

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. He is a member of the ChristianUnion

ChristianUnion

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 (ChristenUnie) and a former member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands.

Cramer has been a member of the city council as well as an alderman

Alderman

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 of Zeewolde

Zeewolde

Zeewolde is a municipality and a town in the Flevoland province in the central Netherlands. It has a population of approximately 20,000. It is situated in the polder of Flevoland with the small lake called the Wolderwijd to the east. To the south is a large deciduous forest called the Horsterwold...

 for the Reformed Political League

Reformed Political League

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 (Gereformeerd Politiek Verbond) and later its successor the ChristianUnion. From 2006 until 2010 he was an MP

Member of Parliament

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Ernst Cramer is a member of the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Liberated) and lives in Zeewolde.