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In Dutch politics, political assistants (PAs; Dutch: politiek assistent) can be appointed to advise cabinet members on political strategy. They are hired by most ministers and state secretaries to inform them about political sentiments of the different parties in parliament. Political assistants became common in the 1990s after having been around for several decades, and the position became subject to specific regulations in 2003.