1. Maria Cornelia Gezina "Mona" Keijzer was born on 9 October 1968 and is a Dutch politician and former civil servant who is the minister of housing and spatial planning in the Schoof cabinet since 2024.
21 Facts About Mona Keijzer
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Mona Keijzer focused on matters of nursing, home care and culture.
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Mona Keijzer was born in a Catholic family in Edam, and she has an older brother and a younger sister.
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Mona Keijzer's father had several jobs, including as fisher and construction worker.
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Mona Keijzer attended the Werenfridus secondary school in Hoorn at VWO level, and she studied juridical public administration and public law at the University of Amsterdam.
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Mona Keijzer started her political career as a member of the municipal council of Waterland from 1996 to 2002 and was later an alderwoman from 1998 to 2006.
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In 2012, Mona Keijzer contested the CDA leadership election in an attempt to become the party's lijsttrekker for the 2012 general election.
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Mona Keijzer was reelected in the 2017 general election with 165,384 votes.
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On 26 October 2017, Mona Keijzer was appointed State Secretary for Economic Affairs and Climate Policy in the third Rutte cabinet.
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On 25 September 2021 Mona Keijzer was dismissed from her cabinet position after publicly criticising the cabinet's position on COVID-19 measures.
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Mona Keijzer resigned from the House of Representatives two days later.
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Mona Keijzer assisted her party in subsequent cabinet formation talks.
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Mona Keijzer raised the possibility of declaring certain parts of Ukraine safe during Russia's invasion of the country such that refugees could return.
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Mona Keijzer suggested refugees would have to contribute more financially towards their sheltering to discourage an influx.
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Filers of the criminal complaints tried to compel the agency to prosecute her through a legal procedure, while Mona Keijzer started a similar procedure to compel the agency to withdraw its opinion on the illegality of her statements.
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Mona Keijzer's lawyer called the reasoning of the Public Prosecution Service stigmatizing.
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Mona Keijzer succeeded Hugo de Jonge, who served as a minister without portfolio.
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Mona Keijzer was tasked with overseeing the construction of 100,000 homes per year in response to a housing shortage, the same target set for her predecessor.
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In December 2024, Mona Keijzer organized a housing summit at which an agreement was struck with organizations representing lower governments, housing corporations, investors, developers, and the construction industry.
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Mona Keijzer is married to a urologist and has five sons.
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Mona Keijzer's father-in-law is a former alderman of Waterland for the CDA.