10 Facts About Tiny Kox

Tiny Kox stepped down in February 2024, by which time he had become the longest-serving incumbent member of the Senate.

On top of being the General Secretary, Tiny Kox was the face of the party during the 1994 European Parliament Election, and the campaign manager during the Dutch general elections from 1994 to 2003.

Tiny Kox stepped down as General Secretary of the SP and became head of the SP-faction in the Senate.

Tiny Kox was initially elected, but decided to stay in the Senate instead.

In 2018, Tiny Kox put through a proposal that focused on categorically beating back child poverty in the Netherlands.

Tiny Kox is currently the head of the Unified European Left Group, an alliance consisting of European green and left-wing parties.

Tiny Kox led multiple missions as an international election-supervisor in Bosnia, Russia, Turkey and Georgia.

On 28 September 2021 Tiny Kox was nominated by the UEL-group as President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe for 2022 and 2023, on the basis of the 2008 rotation-agreement between the five political groups in PACE.

Tiny Kox was elected President of the Parliamentary Assembly on January 24,2022.

Immediately after taking office, Tiny Kox was confronted with Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine.