Annabel Nanninga
{{Short description|Dutch politician (born 1977)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Annabel Nanninga
| image = Annabel Nanninga 2021 (cropped).png
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| office = Leader of JA21 in the Senate
| term_start = 18 December 2020
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| predecessor = Position established
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| office1 = Member of the Senate
| term_start1 = 26 October 2020
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| office2 = Member of the States of North Holland
| term_start2 = 20 March 2019
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| birth_name = Annabel Nanninga
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1977|11|06|df=y}}
| birth_place = Amsterdam, Netherlands
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| party = JA21 (since 2020)
| otherparty = Forum for Democracy (2017–2020)
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| children = 3
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Annabel Nanninga (born 6 November 1977) is a Dutch politician and journalist who was the co-founder of the JA21 party. She currently leads the party in the Senate and is a representative of the Provincial Council of North Holland. She has been a member of Amsterdam city council since 2018.{{Cite web|title=Eerste Kamer der Staten-Generaal - Nanninga terug in Eerste Kamer in Fractie-Nanninga|url=https://www.eerstekamer.nl/nieuws/20210217/nanninga_terug_in_eerste_kamer_in|access-date=2021-03-20|website=www.eerstekamer.nl}}
Early life and career
Nanninga was born in the Amsterdam neighbourhood 'Dapperbuurt'. Also in Amsterdam, she attended the prestigious Barlaeus Gymnasium (high school). In an interview with RTL Nederland, she stated that she sometimes skipped classes to self-educate in the public library at the Prinsengracht. Nanninga subsequently dropped out of school as a teenager and held various jobs including in an ice cream parlor, as a caterer and in a fashion store.[https://www.rtlz.nl/business/artikel/4658136/carriere-annabel-nanninga-forum-voor-democratie-fvd Van ijsjes verkopen naar politiek: de carrière van FvD-kopstuk Annabel Nanninga], RTL Z, 29 maart 2019. [https://web.archive.org/web/20190515143225/https://www.rtlz.nl/business/artikel/4658136/carriere-annabel-nanninga-forum-voor-democratie-fvd Gearchiveerd] op 15 mei 2019.
In 2012, she took an interest in blogging and journalism and began submitting op-eds to GeenStijl, PowNed, and Veronica Magazine among others.{{cite web|title=In de nieuwste VROUW glossy - Annabel Nanninga (38): Ik word regelmatig bedreigd|url=https://vrouw.nl/artikel/vrouw-glossy/35531/annabel-nanninga-38-ik-word-regelmatig-bedreigd|url-status=live|author=Vivienne Groenewoud|work=Vrouw.nl|publisher=Vrouw (De Telegraaf)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107021538/https://vrouw.nl/artikel/vrouw-glossy/35531/annabel-nanninga-38-ik-word-regelmatig-bedreigd|archive-date=7 November 2017|date=2016-08-16|access-date=2017-11-01}} In 2014, she co-founded the Dutch online news platform Jalta.nl with Joshua Livestro and was the site's managing editor until 2015. The website hired notable figures such as Frits Bolkestein, Thierry Baudet and Hafid Bouazza to write columns. She was also a columnist for DeJaap magazine.{{cite web|title=Annabel Nanninga stapt over van Jalta.nl naar TPO.nl|url=http://media.tpo.nl/2015/12/14/annabel-nanninga-stapt-over-van-jalta-nl-naar-tpo-nl/|url-status=live|work=ThePostOnline|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190601041523/https://media.tpo.nl/2015/12/14/annabel-nanninga-stapt-over-van-jalta-nl-naar-tpo-nl/|archive-date=1 June 2019|date=14 December 2015}}
Political career
In the 2018 Dutch municipal elections, she was the party leader for Forum for Democracy (FVD) in Amsterdam.{{cite web|title=Columnist Annabel Nanninga wordt FvD-lijsttrekker in Amsterdam - Elsevierweekblad.nl|url=http://www.elsevierweekblad.nl/nederland/achtergrond/2017/10/journalist-annabel-nanninga-wordt-fvd-lijsttrekker-in-amsterdam-552520/|url-status=live|author=Elif Isitman|work=Elsevierweekblad.nl|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107030126/http://www.elsevierweekblad.nl/nederland/achtergrond/2017/10/journalist-annabel-nanninga-wordt-fvd-lijsttrekker-in-amsterdam-552520/|archive-date=7 November 2017|date=2017-10-22|access-date=2017-11-01}}{{cite web|title=Columniste Nanninga lijsttrekker Forum voor Democratie in Amsterdam|url=https://nos.nl/artikel/2199110-columniste-nanninga-lijsttrekker-forum-voor-democratie-in-amsterdam.html|url-status=live|publisher=NOS|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107004427/https://nos.nl/artikel/2199110-columniste-nanninga-lijsttrekker-forum-voor-democratie-in-amsterdam.html|archive-date=7 November 2017|access-date=2017-11-01}} FVD received three seats in the municipal council. Nanninga was sworn in as a councilor on March 29, 2018. In March 2019 she also became a member of the Provincial Council of North Holland. In the same elections, she was elected in the Provincial Council of Utrecht with preferential votes.[https://web.archive.org/web/20190915090149/https://www.provincie-utrecht.nl/publish/pages/336771/2019-03-vaststelling-uitslag-ps2019-utrecht.pdf Proces-verbaal van de verkiezingsuitslag van de provinciale staten van Utrecht] In October 2020 Nanninga went on maternity leave and was temporarily replaced by Hugo Berkhout and later by Robert Baljeu in the Senate.[https://www.eerstekamer.nl/nieuws/20201026/berkhout_fvd_en_keunen_vvd_beedigd Berkhout (FVD) en Keunen (VVD) beëdigd als lid van de Eerste Kamer], eerstekamer.nl, 26 oktober 2020. [https://web.archive.org/web/20210303062548/https://www.eerstekamer.nl/nieuws/20201026/berkhout_fvd_en_keunen_vvd_beedigd Gearchiveerd] op 3 maart 2021.
In November 2020, she left the FvD, when this party, in her opinion, did not distance itself fiercely enough from antisemitic apps written by members of its youth division.{{Cite web |last=Redactie |date=2020-11-26 |title=Eerdmans, Nanninga, Pouw en Vlaardingerbroek weg bij FvD |url=https://www.trouw.nl/politiek/eerdmans-nanninga-pouw-en-vlaardingerbroek-weg-bij-fvd~b9405692/ |access-date=2023-02-23 |website=Trouw |language=nl-NL}} Together with former FvD candidate Joost Eerdmans she founded the party JA21. On February 15, 2021, she returned to the Senate from her leave and joined the Van Pareren faction, which was renamed the Nanninga faction and has 7 seats. The faction subsequently became part of JA21.
Controversies
Nanninga posted a series of tweets on her Twitter page in 2006, which by some people were deemed antisemitic. According to others, her tweets were shown out of context and twisted in order to discredit her.{{Cite web |last=Reve |first=Jonathan van het |date=2018-03-12 |title=Net als bij de IS-tweet van Nida was bij antisemitische tweets van Annabel Nanninga niemand geïnteresseerd in de context |url=https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/net-als-bij-de-is-tweet-van-nida-was-bij-antisemitische-tweets-van-annabel-nanninga-niemand-geinteresseerd-in-de-context~ba6c34f8/ |access-date=2023-02-23 |website=de Volkskrant |language=nl-NL}} These tweets were retroactively deleted during 2020–21, however multiple internet archives contain screenshots of the tweets. In subsequent interviews, Nanninga stated that the tweets were intended to be satirical and had to be considered in their specific context, on which she extensively elaborated in Nieuw Israëlietisch Weekblad.{{Cite web |date=2019-03-29 |title=‘Ik ben het probleem niet’ |url=https://niw.nl/ik-ben-het-probleem-niet/ |access-date=2023-02-23 |website=NIW |language=nl}} Nanninga also encountered some controversy over columns, in which she criticised the influx of migrants during the European refugee crisis and made satirical remarks regarding migrants from Africa trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea. Nanninga later claimed she used the ironic writing style of Gerard Reve.[https://www.geenstijl.nl/3911571/het_is_weer_lente_de_grote_ove/ Het is weer lente! De Grote Oversteek begint], Geenstijl, 9 april 2014. [https://web.archive.org/web/20210811104355/https://www.geenstijl.nl/3911571/het_is_weer_lente_de_grote_ove/ Gearchiveerd] op 11 augustus 2021. In 2015, at the height of the refugee crisis, she sheltered a homosexual asylumseeker in her house for six months, because he was harassed at the asylum center.{{cite web|access-date=2023-03-03|date=2017-07-22|first=Ariejan|language=nl-NL|last=Korteweg|title=Annabel Nanninga: 'Ik nam een asielzoeker in huis'|url=https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/annabel-nanninga-ik-nam-een-asielzoeker-in-huis~b165aee2/|work=de Volkskrant}}{{cite web|access-date=2023-03-03|date=2020-08-07|first=Fleur|language=nl|last=Verbeek|title=Nanninga (FVD) haalt hard uit naar VVD na gruwelijke aanval op lesbische asielzoeker - EW|url=https://www.ewmagazine.nl/nederland/achtergrond/2020/08/lesbische-asielzoeker-aangevallen-in-azc-zware-brandwonden-770235/|work=EWmagazine.nl}}
Personal life
Nanninga has three children: her first daughter was born when she was 19 years old; her second daughter followed three years later. In 2020 she had a son.[https://www.rtlz.nl/business/artikel/4658136/carriere-annabel-nanninga-forum-voor-democratie-fvd Van ijsjes verkopen naar politiek: de carrière van FvD-kopstuk Annabel Nanninga], RTL Z, 29 maart 2019. [https://web.archive.org/web/20190515143225/https://www.rtlz.nl/business/artikel/4658136/carriere-annabel-nanninga-forum-voor-democratie-fvd Gearchiveerd] op 15 mei 2019.
Electoral history
{{Incomplete list|date=December 2023}}
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|+ {{sronly|Electoral history of Annabel Nanninga}} ! scope="col" rowspan=2 |Year ! scope="col" rowspan=2 |Body ! scope="col" colspan=2 rowspan=2 |Party ! scope="col" rowspan=2 |{{abbr|2=Position on the party list|Pos.}} ! scope="col" rowspan=2 |Votes ! scope="colgroup" colspan=2 |Result ! scope="col" rowspan=2 class="unsortable" |{{abbr|2=References|Ref}}. |
| scope="col" |Party seats
! scope="col" |Individual |
|---|
| scope="row" | 2018
| style="background-color:{{party color|Forum for Democracy}};"| | style=text-align:right | 1 | style=text-align:right | 14,753 | style=text-align:right | 3 | {{yes2|Won}} | |
| scope="row" | 2019
| Provincial Council of North Holland | style="background-color:{{party color|Forum for Democracy}};"| | Forum for Democracy | style=text-align:right | 15 | style=text-align:right | 7,509 | style=text-align:right | 9 | {{no2|Lost}} | |
| scope="row" | 2019
| Provincial Council of Utrecht | style="background-color:{{party color|Forum for Democracy}};"| | Forum for Democracy | style=text-align:right | 14 | style=text-align:right | | style=text-align:right | 6 | {{no2|Lost}} | |
| scope="row" | 2019
| Senate | style="background-color:{{party color|Forum for Democracy}};"| | Forum for Democracy | style=text-align:right | 3 | style=text-align:right | | style=text-align:right | 12 | {{yes2|Won}} | |
| scope="row" | 2021
| style="background-color:{{party color|JA21}};"| | JA21 | style=text-align:right | 30{{efn|name=duwer|Nanninga participated as a {{lang|nl|lijstduwer}}.}} | style=text-align:right | 11,396 | style=text-align:right | 3 | {{no2|Lost}} |
| scope="row" | 2022
| Amsterdam Municipal Council | style="background-color:{{party color|JA21}};"| | JA21 | style=text-align:right | 1 | style=text-align:right | 11,821 | style=text-align:right | 2 | {{yes2|Won}} | |
| scope="row" | 2023
| Senate | style="background-color:{{party color|JA21}};"| | JA21 | style=text-align:right | 1 | style=text-align:right | | style=text-align:right | 3 | {{yes2|Won}} | |
| scope="row" | 2023
| House of Representatives | style="background-color:{{party color|JA21}};"| | JA21 | style=text-align:right | 2 | style=text-align:right | 10,132 | style=text-align:right | 1 | {{no2|Lost}} |
| scope="row" | 2024
| style="background-color:{{party color|JA21}};”| | JA21 | style=text-align:right | 14{{efn|name=duwer}} | style=text-align:right | 2,161 | style=text-align:right | 0 | {{no2|Lost}} |
Notes
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References
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{{Members of the Senate of the Netherlands, 2023–2027}}
{{Members of the Senate of the Netherlands, 2019–2023}}
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