19 Facts About Joost Eerdmans

Bernard Johannes "Joost" Eerdmans was born on 9 January 1971 and is a Dutch politician, broadcaster and former civil servant who has served as Leader of JA21 since 18 December 2020, a party he co-founded with Annabel Nanninga.

Bernard Johannes Joost Eerdmans was born on 9 January 1971 in Harderwijk in the province of Gelderland in a Reformed family.

Joost Eerdmans is the cousin of Dutch author and game show host Theo Eerdmans.

Joost Eerdmans was then employed as a civil servant at the Ministry of Justice from 1997 until 1999 and was a staff member to the Director General of the law enforcement department at the Ministry of Justice.

Joost Eerdmans was placed nineteenth on the list and after the 2002 election he became a member of the House of Representatives, while his party joined the First Balkenende cabinet.

Joost Eerdmans was removed from the party's parliamentary faction after it was definitively announced that Eerdmans would be on the One NL candidate list for the 2006 election.

Joost Eerdmans made a return to local politics when he was elected lijsttrekker of Leefbaar Rotterdam on 6 October 2013.

The party subsequently formed a coalition with the Democrats 66 and Christian Democratic Appeal, in which Joost Eerdmans became an alderman.

Joost Eerdmans worked with the Forum for Democracy during the 2018 Dutch municipal elections.

However, before this could be effectuated Joost Eerdmans quit the party soon after the announcement, citing what he saw as the FvD's insufficient handling of antisemitism, homophobia and racism scandals from other party members.

Joost Eerdmans said that he wanted to see a return of Fortuynism in Dutch politics which he summarized as a decisive, no-nonsense and straightforward approach to decision making.

Joost Eerdmans argued they prevented the police from identifying individuals breaking the law, citing pro-Palestinian protesters on university campuses as an example.

Joost Eerdmans described it as an "unlawful, society-disruptive, and vandalistic organization" that should not be able to receive tax-deductible donations.

Joost Eerdmans did not embrace the revised budget, declaring that "a lot of ugly things remained".

Joost Eerdmans was a television host on the Dutch channel Het Gesprek and has been a columnist for the website GeenStijl.

Joost Eerdmans was one of the hosts of the Dutch programme TROS Regelrecht and was a presenter on the BNR Newsradio show Peptalk in 2010.

Joost Eerdmans then presented the NPO Radio 1 discussion show Evening Rush Hour from 2010 and 2013.

Joost Eerdmans serves on the panel for the annual Pim Fortuyn Prize which is awarded to politicians, commentators or public figures who best convey the ideas of Pim Fortuyn.

Joost Eerdmans was raised in the Dutch Reformed Church, but later lost his faith and became an atheist; despite this, he and his wife, who is an atheist, married in church.