Alexander van Hattem

Alexander van Hattem
Leader of the Party for Freedom in the Senate of the Netherlands
Incumbent
Assumed office
6 December 2024
Preceded byMarjolein Faber
Member of the Senate
Incumbent
Assumed office
9 June 2015
Personal details
Born (1983-06-06) 6 June 1983 (age 41)
Westerhoven, Netherlands
Political partyPVV (2008–present)
Other political
affiliations		LPF (2002–2008)
Alma materAvans Hogeschool

Alexander van Hattem (born 6 June 1983) is a Dutch politician who has been a member of the Senate for the Party for Freedom since 2015 and is a member of the Provincial Council of North Brabant.[1][2]

Van Hattem studied history at Radboud University before completing a law course at Avans Hogeschool in Tilburg and has run a legal consultancy business since 2005.[3] He was previously a member of the Pim Fortuyn List (LPF) and was chairman of the LPF's youth wing Jonge Fortuynisten.[4] He subsequently worked as an intern for the Party for Freedom and was elected to the Provincial Council of North Brabant in 2014 where he served as chairman of the Culture and Society Committee. That same year he encountered some controversy when he expressed support for controversial remarks made by Geert Wilders about Moroccan immigrants. After calls from other parties for him to be removed from the Culture and Society Committee, van Hatten apologized and was allowed to keep his position.[5] In 2015, he was elected to sit in the Senate for the PVV.

Van Hattem was reelected for the Netherlands senate for another term in May 2023.

  1. ^ "Fractieleden". Partij voor de Vrijheid (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 10 January 2017. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
  2. ^ "A.W.J.A. Van Hattem (PVV)".
  3. ^ "Statenleden en fracties".
  4. ^ "A.W.J.A. (Alexander) van Hattem".
  5. ^ "Omroep Brabant".