Amma Asante (politician)
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Amma Asante | |
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.jpg) Amma Asante in 2016 | |
| Member of the House of Representatives | |
| In office 7 September 2016 – 23 March 2017 | |
| Member of the municipal council of Amsterdam | |
| In office May 1998 – March 2006 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Amma Asentewaa Asante 14 May 1972 |
| Party | Labour Party (formerly) |
| Alma mater | University of Amsterdam |
| Website | www |
Amma Asentewaa Asante (born 14 May 1972) is a Dutch politician. She was a member of the municipal council of Amsterdam from 1998 to 2006 and a member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands for the Labour Party from 2016 to 2017. She became chair of the Dutch Media Authority in 2022.[1]
Amma Asentewaa Asante was born on 14 May 1972 in Kumasi in Ghana.[2] Her father was initially an illegal immigrant in the Netherlands, but he became a legal resident by a general pardon in 1975.[3] For family reunification, Asante and her mother moved to the Netherlands in 1978.[3] Her father was a factory worker and her mother a chambermaid.[4]
Asante studied political science at the University of Amsterdam.[5]
Politics
Asante was a member of the Labour Party (PvdA).[2]
She was member of the municipal council of Amsterdam from May 1998 until March 2006.[2]
Asante was number 50 on the candidate list of the Labour Party for the 2012 Dutch general election.[3] She received 4,549 preferential votes, but was initially not elected.[6] She was number 36 on the candidate list of the Labour Party for the 2014 European Parliament election.[7] She received 574 preferential votes, but was not elected.[8]
Asante became a member of the House of Representatives on 7 September 2016, when she replaced Tanja Jadnanansing.[9] Here she is the party spokesperson for higher education.[4] She was number 36 on the candidate list of the Labour Party for the Dutch general election on 15 March 2017.[4] The Labour Party won nine seats in the election, so Asante left the House of Representatives on 23 March 2017.[2] She was number 47 on the candidate list of the Labour Party for the Dutch general election on 17 March 2021.
