14 Facts About Lucas Hartong

Lucas Hartong was born on 24 May 1963 and is a Dutch politician.

Lucas Hartong served as a member of the European Parliament for the Party for Freedom between 22 June 2010 and 1 July 2014.

Lucas Hartong was leader of the PVV delegation from 24 March to 1 July 2014.

Lucas Hartong went to the gymnasium in Breda and he later studied theology at Christelijke Hogeschool Ede and Tilburg University.

Lucas Hartong later became a member of the board of the Pim Fortuyn List in South Holland.

Lucas Hartong went on to serve as a parliamentary assistant to the Party for Freedom group in the European Parliament.

Lucas Hartong was supposed to have joined the European Parliament earlier, as the Netherlands, and with it the Party for Freedom, received an extra seat when the European Parliament increased the number of seats.

The judicial procedures were however not finished before Lucas Hartong was installed to replace Bontes.

At the start of his term Lucas Hartong said he wished to represent the Christian voters in the European Parliament.

Lucas Hartong claimed that another concern of him would be fishery, he found it surprising that the Dutch had no seat in the Committee on Fisheries.

In 2013 Lucas Hartong was critical of the European Parliament paid trips of journalist to the Parliament, with costs of around 700,000 euro in 2011.

Lucas Hartong saw a relation between pro-EU stories in the media and the paid trips.

Lucas Hartong served amongst others as member of the Committee on Budgets and the Delegation for relations with the United States.

Lucas Hartong declined to be on the Party for Freedom candidate list for the European Parliament elections of 2014, citing he did not want to cooperate with "wrong figures" from parties such as the Freedom Party of Austria and the French National Front.