26 Facts About Don Ceder

Don Guno Maria Ceder was born on 20 October 1989 and is a Dutch lawyer and politician, serving as a member of House of Representatives since the 2021 general election.

Don Ceder won a seat in the Amsterdam municipal council three years later as a member of the political party Christian Union.

Don Ceder has a brother, a half-brother, and a half-sister, and he grew up in the Zuidoost neighborhood Bijlmermeer.

Don Ceder attended the secondary school Sint-Nicolaaslyceum at gymnasium level.

Don Ceder studied law at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam starting at age seventeen and earned his Master of Laws degree in 2013.

Don Ceder left Anti-Incasso to start his own solo law practice in March 2015 called Don Ceder Advocatuur, that is focussed on defending people in debt.

Don Ceder had been admitted to the bar the month before.

Don Ceder started taking on less cases in 2019 because of his position as municipal councilor.

Don Ceder represented over 15 parents who were caught up in the childcare benefits scandal.

Don Ceder first ran for political office in the 2014 municipal election.

Don Ceder was in third place on the Christian Union's party list in Amsterdam, but his party did not win any seats in the municipal council.

Don Ceder was not elected, as his party won one seat, but he was appointed, meaning that he could not vote but could participate in committee meetings.

Don Ceder ran again for Amsterdam municipal councilor in the March 2018 election, this time being the party's.

Don Ceder has proposed ending window prostitution in the city and creating a homeless shelter that is opened 24 hours a day.

Don Ceder ran for member of parliament during the 2017 general election, being placed seventh on the party list.

When MP Stieneke van der Graaf went on maternity leave in March 2019 and Don Ceder was asked to temporarily fill her seat, he declined, saying he wanted to continue his work as council member.

Don Ceder again appeared on the Christian Union's party list for the 2021 election as number four.

Don Ceder was elected, having received 10,318 preference votes, and was sworn in as member of parliament on 31 March 2021.

Furthermore, Don Ceder was critical of the cabinet for a lack of central leadership during the evacuations of Afghanistan following the fall of Kabul in August 2021.

Don Ceder focused on municipal welfare, working on a bill to allow municipalities to be more lenient with reimbursements by recipients in case of mistakes.

Don Ceder railed against the amount of money made by the industry and decried buy now, pay later services that make part of their profit through late payments.

Don Ceder proposed that the creditor should keep responsibility over the debt collection to prevent malpractices by owners of resold debt, and he wanted to mandate collectors to investigate whether the debtor could pay the debt.

Don Ceder was an advocate of a ban of social media platform TikTok, which was especially popular amongst children.

Don Ceder was re-elected to the House in November 2023, and his areas of expertise were expanded to include defense, education, culture, and science.

Don Ceder was a resident of the Amsterdam borough Zuidoost as of 2018, and he got married in January 2023.

Don Ceder is a member of the Safe Haven Church, which formerly belonged to the Pentecostalist denomination Victory Outreach, and played a disciple in the 2018 edition of The Passion, that was held in his hometown.