{{short description|Dutch politician}} {{BLP sources|date=February 2013}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Tineke Strik | honorific_suffix = | caption = Tineke Strik in 2024 | image = 1720689539595 20240711 STRIK Tineke NL 012.jpg | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1961|9|28|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Alphen (Gelderland)|Alphen]], [[Netherlands]] | birth_name = Martina Hermina Antonia Strik | death_date = | death_place = | office = [[Member of the European Parliament]]<br />for the [[Netherlands (European Parliament constituency)|Netherlands]] | term_start = 2 July 2019 | term_end = | predecessor = | successor = | office1 = [[Senate (Netherlands)|Member of the Senate of the Netherlands]] | term_start1 = 12 June 2007 | term_end1 = 1 July 2019 | predecessor1 = | successor1 = | party = [[GreenLeft]] | constituency = | majority = | spouse = | children = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Martina Hermina Antonia "Tineke" Strik''' (born 28 September 1961) is a Dutch politician. From 2007 to 2019 she was a member of the [[Senate of the Netherlands|Senate]] for [[GreenLeft]]. Since 2019 she is a member of the [[European Parliament]] sitting with the [[Greens–European Free Alliance]] group.
==Biography== Between 1979 and 1983, Strik studied social work at the social academy "Den Elzent" in [[Eindhoven]]. In the meanwhile, she worked at the [[Kindertelefoon]], a phone help line for children. Between 1981 and 1985, she worked as a youth worker at the Cultural Youth Centre "De Effenaar" in Eindhoven. She continued to study [[international law]] at the [[Radboud University]] between 1985 and 1991, she also studied [[Turkish language|Turkish]] between 1989 and 1991. Between 1990 and 1993, she worked a legal consultant at the Youth Advice Centre in [[Amsterdam]]. Between 1994 and 1995, she briefly studied law at the Radbouw University. She also took courses at the [[Red Cross]], [[Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael|Clingendael]], and the [[University Utrecht]] where she studied [[war law]], [[European law]] and [[administrative law]]. Between 1993 and 1996, she worked at Vluchtelingenwerk, an organization that helps [[refugees]], as a legal consultant. She then worked as a judicial secretary at the court of [[Zwolle]], working for the chamber of refugees. In 1997, she made the switch to politics: she began to work for the [[GreenLeft]] parliamentary party as a policy advisor on justice. Between 2001 and 2002, she worked as policy coordinator for the [[Ministry of Justice (Netherlands)|Ministry of Justice]].
Between 2002 and 2006, she was [[wethouder|alderman]] for social affairs, including youth, culture and minorities in [[Wageningen]]. In 2004, she also became researcher-[[PhD]]-candidate at the Centre for Migration law of the Radboud University. She had several positions within the GreenLeft. She was member of the Strategic Council, a council of local and national GreenLeft politicians on the party's course. In 2005–2006, she was a member of the committee which wrote GreenLeft's [[election program]]. She also was suppleant of the congress of local government of the [[Council of Europe]] and observer at the 2005 local elections in the [[Palestinian National Authority]].
In 2007, she was elected into the [[Senate of the Netherlands|Senate]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Mrs Tineke Strik Information|url=http://assembly.coe.int/ASP/AssemblyList/AL_MemberDetails.asp?MemberID=6254|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090213215930/http://assembly.coe.int/ASP/AssemblyList/AL_MemberDetails.asp?MemberID=6254|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-02-13|work=10/30/2011|publisher=Parliamentary Assembly Europe|access-date=2011-10-30}}</ref> In 2008, she announced that she was one of five candidates for the position of [[lijsttrekker|top candidate]] for the [[GreenLeft]] in the 2009 [[2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands|European Parliament election]], but she did not become a member of that body until 2019. Strik was [[2024 European Parliament election in the Netherlands|re-elected in June 2024]] as the fifth candidate on the shared [[GroenLinks–PvdA]] list, which received a [[plurality (voting)|plurality]] in the Netherlands of eight seats.<ref name="eu24"/> Her focus has since been on [[rule of law]], democracy, asylum, and migration.<ref>{{Cite web |url = https://groenlinkspvda.nl/onze-mensen/europees-parlement/tineke-strik/ |title = Tineke Strik |language = nl |access-date = 10 November 2024 |website = [[GroenLinks–PvdA]] }}</ref>
== Personal life== Strik was born on a farm in a family of six children in [[Dodewaard]].
== Electoral history == {{Incomplete list|date=June 2024}} {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="font-size: 90%; text-align:center;" |+ {{sronly|Electoral history of Tineke Strik}} ! scope="col" rowspan=2 |Year ! scope="col" rowspan=2 |Body ! scope="col" colspan=2 rowspan=2 |Party ! scope="col" rowspan=2 |{{abbr|2=Position on the party list|Pos.}} ! scope="col" rowspan=2 |Votes ! scope="colgroup" colspan=2 |Result ! scope="col" rowspan=2 |{{abbr|2=References|Ref}}. |- ! scope="col" |Party seats ! scope="col" |Individual |- ! scope="row" | [[2024 European Parliament election in the Netherlands|2024]] | [[European Parliament]] | style="background-color:{{party color|GroenLinks–PvdA}};”| | [[GroenLinks–PvdA]] | style=text-align:right | [[Party lists in the 2024 European Parliament election in the Netherlands#GROENLINKS / Labour Party (PvdA)|5]] | style=text-align:right | 46,348 | style=text-align:right | 8 | {{yes2|Won}} | <ref name="eu24">{{Cite web |url = https://www.kiesraad.nl/adviezen-en-publicaties/proces-verbalen/2024/06/19/proces-verbaal-van-de-uitslag-van-de-europees-parlementsverkiezing-6-juni-2024 |website = Dutch Electoral Council |language = nl |access-date = 19 June 2024 |format = PDF |date = 19 June 2024 |title = Proces-verbaal centraal stembureau uitslag verkiezing Europees Parlement Model P22-1 |trans-title = Central electoral council report of the results of the election of the European Parliament Model P22-1 |pages = 11–12, 35 }}</ref> |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Members of the Senate of the Netherlands, 2011–2015}} {{Members of the Senate of the Netherlands, 2015–2019}} {{European Parliament MEPs, 2019-2024 (Netherlands) by party}} {{European Parliament MEPs, 2024–2029 (Netherlands) by party}} {{EP Political Group Greens–EFA (2019–2024)}} {{EP Political Group Greens–EFA (2024–2029)}} {{Authority control}}
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