Sietse Rindert Fritsma is a Dutch

Netherlands

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 politician

Politician

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 and former civil servant. As a member of the Party for Freedom

Party for Freedom

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 (Partij voor de Vrijheid) he has been an MP since November 30, 2006. He focuses on matters of social affairs, employment

Employment

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, political asylum and immigration

Immigration

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. From March 2010 till January 2011 he was also a member and PVV fraction leader of the municipal council

Municipal council

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 of The Hague

The Hague

The Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...

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He previously worked for the Dutch Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND).

Fritsma studied social geography

Social geography

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 at the University of Groningen

University of Groningen

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. He obtained a master's degree in spatial science

Spatial science

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, specializing in regional geography

Regional geography

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 of developing countries. Around 1990 he lived for a year in an Israel

Israel

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i kibbutz

Kibbutz

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External links

House of Representatives biography