Leendert Cornelis van Dijke (born September 3, 1955 in Oosterland, Zeeland) is a Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 manager and former politician

Politician

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 and carpenter

Carpenter

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As a member of the Reformatory Political Federation

Reformatory Political Federation

The Reformatory Political Federation was a minor Protestant Christian political party in the Netherlands.-History:The RPF was founded in 1975 by three groups of orthodox Christians...

 (Reformatorische Politieke Federatie) and its successor the ChristianUnion

ChristianUnion

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 (ChristenUnie) he was a member of the Dutch House of Representatives from 1994 to 2003 as well as Parliamentary leader

Parliamentary group leader

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 from 1994 to 2002. He also was a member of the States-Provincial

States-Provincial

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 of the province of Zeeland

Zeeland

Zeeland , also called Zealand in English, is the westernmost province of the Netherlands. The province, located in the south-west of the country, consists of a number of islands and a strip bordering Belgium. Its capital is Middelburg. With a population of about 380,000, its area is about...

from 1987 to 1994.