Meindert Leerling is a Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 former politician

Politician

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, television director

Television director

A television director directs the activities involved in making a television program and is part of a television crew.-Duties:The duties of a television director vary depending on whether the production is live or recorded to video tape or video server .In both types of productions, the...

 and (sports) journalist.

As a member of the Reformatory Political Federation

Reformatory Political Federation

The Reformatory Political Federation was a minor Protestant Christian political party in the Netherlands.-History:The RPF was founded in 1975 by three groups of orthodox Christians...

 (Reformatorische Politieke Federatie) he was a member of the Dutch House of Representatives as well as Parliamentary leader

Parliamentary group leader

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 from 1981 to 1994.

Previously he worked as a television director and RTV journalist for the Evangelical Broadcasting

Evangelische Omroep

Evangelische Omroep is one of the twelve member-based broadcasting associations contributing to the Netherlands Public Broadcasting system. It has as its mission to bring people into contact with Jesus Christ and its statement of faith is a form of Evangelicalism...

 (Evangelische Omroep) and as a sports journalist for several newspapers.

Meindert Leerling has been married twice (his first wife died in 1999) and is a member of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands

Protestant Church in the Netherlands

The Protestant Church in the Netherlands is the largest Protestant Christian denomination in the Netherlands. With 2,000 congregations and a membership of some 1.8 million , it is the second largest church in the Netherlands after the Roman Catholic Church.It was founded 1 May 2004 as a merger of...

(PKN).