40 Facts About Chris Jansen

Christiaan Anton Jansen was born on 27 October 1966 and is a Dutch politician for the right-wing populist Party for Freedom.

Chris Jansen has been serving as State Secretary for Public Transport and the Environment since July 2024, and he previously was a member of the House of Representatives between November 2019 and March 2021.

Chris Jansen remained loyal to Geert Wilders, founder of the PVV, after he held a speech in which he asked a crowd whether they would want more or fewer Moroccans, being the only member of the party in Almere to not distance himself from the speech.

Chris Jansen served as chair of the Almere audit office for three years.

However, when Sietse Fritsma vacated his seat in 2019, Chris Jansen was appointed as his successor.

Chris Jansen subsequently resigned from his positions as municipal councillor and member of the states-provincial.

Chris Jansen was born on 27 October 1966 in Bussum to an Indonesian-born mother.

Chris Jansen has told that he decided to become involved in politics in 2009 as a result of the first trial of Geert Wilders, which Chris Jansen regarded as a trial against the freedom of speech.

Chris Jansen first ran for political office during the 2010 municipal elections in the city Almere, where he was on place seven on the PVV's party list.

All PVV councilmen in Almere except for Chris Jansen distanced themselves from Wilders' statements a few days later, causing Chris Jansen to declare in an interview on Radio 1 Journaal that he was the only PVV councilman left in Almere and that the other eight would have to continue under a different party name.

Chris Jansen was expelled from the municipal PVV caucus because of those statements and because the caucus leader said Jansen was following his own course.

Chris Jansen had already acknowledged he had been wrong and had apologized to the municipal council.

Chris Jansen was not dismissed as not enough support for the move existed.

Usually a term as chair lasts two years, but Chris Jansen remained in the position until 2017, as an investigation was still ongoing.

Chris Jansen ran again for councilor during the 2018 municipal election and was re-elected for a third term as the fourth person on the party list.

Chris Jansen vacated his seat in the Almere municipal council during his third term in January 2019 after being appointed member to the House of Representatives.

Besides serving in the Almere council, Chris Jansen has served for a number of years on the seven-member executive board of the Flevoland branch of the Association of Dutch Municipalities.

Chris Jansen became a member of the States of Flevoland in March 2011, remaining in his position as councilman as well.

Chris Jansen won his seat during the 2011 Dutch provincial elections, being placed third on the party list.

Chris Jansen became the PVV's party leader in the States in June 2013, after his predecessor Joram van Klaveren resigned because he could no longer combine the position with his membership of the House of Representatives.

Chris Jansen's party was among the parties that voted against the motion to cause, in his words, "maximal damage to the executive council".

Chris Jansen later called the failure of the motion a "dream scenario", as it had resulted in the fall of executive.

In March 2019, Chris Jansen was re-elected during the provincial elections, being again the party's.

Chris Jansen vacated his seat on 28 January 2020 after he had become an MP.

Chris Jansen sought another term in March 2023 provincial elections as his party's.

Chris Jansen was re-elected, while the PVV lost one of its four seats.

Chris Jansen's party won twenty seats and he personally received 382 preferential votes, the majority of which came from his home province of Flevoland.

Chris Jansen was on place nine on the party list for the 2019 Dutch Senate election, but the PVV received only five seats.

In October 2019, MP Sietse Fritsma stepped down to start a business, resulting in Chris Jansen becoming a member of the House of Representatives.

Chris Jansen was sworn in on 27 November 2019 and he indicated that he planned to resign from his other political positions.

Chris Jansen pointed at the fact that other European countries had taken more action and said Minister for Medical Care Bruno Bruins should think ahead instead of solely listening to experts.

Chris Jansen unsuccessfully ran for re-election in the 2021 general election as the PVV's 21st candidate.

Chris Jansen's party won 17 seats, and Jansen's 338 votes were not enough to meet the preferential-vote threshold.

Chris Jansen's portfolio includes the environment, soil, public transport, cycling policy, sustainable transport, KNMI, ANVS, and PBL.

Chris Jansen subsequently called on municipalities to not enforce the zones in their first year and to postpone by a year the effective date for the cleanest type of diesel delivery vans.

Chris Jansen relied on the European Union to establish further regulations to ban the substance.

Chris Jansen has acknowledged the existence of climate change, but called it a natural process that has been going on throughout history and has denied human activity as a major cause, contradicting the scientific consensus on climate change.

Chris Jansen has called measures to address climate change including the energy transition too expensive.

Chris Jansen has accused the municipality of including part of the event's costs in other proposals to make the total costs seem smaller.

Chris Jansen has played soccer, starting in his childhood at the Naarden club NVC.