René Claassen
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- PVV (2023–2026)
- Markuszower Group (since 2026)
13 July 1971
René Claassen | |
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 René Claassen in 2023 | |
| Member of the House of Representatives | |
| Assumed office 6 December 2023 | |
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| Municipal councilor of Landgraaf | |
| In office 30 March 2022 – 6 December 2023 | |
| Member of the Provincial Council of Limburg | |
| In office 28 March 2019 – 6 December 2023 | |
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| Born | René Adrianus Bernardus Claassen 13 July 1971 Heerlen, Netherlands |
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| Alma mater | Maastricht University (MSc) |
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René Adrianus Bernardus Claassen (born 13 July 1971) is a Dutch politician. Representing the Party for Freedom (PVV), he was a member of the Provincial Council of Limburg starting in 2019, and he has served as a member of the House of Representatives since the 2023 Dutch general election. In 2026, Claassen left the PVV parliamentary group along with six other MPs to found the Markuszower Group.
Claassen was born in Heerlen's Zuyderland Hospital on 13 July 1971. His father was a member of the Labour Party and a senior union leader of Abvakabo.[1] Claassen was raised Catholic, but he has said that he was "cured of Roman Catholicism" after visiting Vatican City at age seventeen, concluding it was a charade.[2] Claassen completed his nursing training in the late 1980s, and he worked as a hospital nurse for over twenty years, successively in a pediatric ward and an intensive care unit. He was employed by the Zuyderland Hospital for most of that period.[1] He switched careers in 2008 and became a healthcare educator and manager at the Zuyd University of Applied Sciences. He also completed a master's degree in applied science at Maastricht University.[1][3][4]
