Rik Arend Janssen 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...

 politician

Politician

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 and former businessman. As a member of the Socialist Party

Socialist Party (Netherlands)

The Socialist Party is a democratic socialist political party in the Netherlands. After the 2006 general election, the Socialist Party became one of the major parties of the Netherlands with 25 seats of 150, an increase of 16 seats. The party was in opposition against the fourth Balkenende cabinet...

 (Socialistische Partij) he was a temporary MP from January 11 till April 14, 2011, replacing Sadet Karabulut

Sadet Karabulut

Sadet Karabulut is a Dutch politician and formercivil servant and trade unionist of Kurdish-Turkish descent. As a member of the Socialist Party she has been an MP since November 30, 2006. From January 11 till April 14, 2011 she was on maternity leave and therefore replaced by Rik Janssen...

, who was on maternity leave. He focused on matters of security

Security

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, judiciary

Judiciary

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, immigration

Immigration

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 and political asylum. Since April 27, 2011 he has been a member of the States Deputed of the province of South Holland

South Holland

South Holland is a province situated on the North Sea in the western part of the Netherlands. The provincial capital is The Hague and its largest city is Rotterdam.South Holland is one of the most densely populated and industrialised areas in the world...

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Janssen owned a horeca

Horeca

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 enterprise in Scheveningen. Because of an accident he got disabled and he had to abandon his business. In order to rehabilitate he studied law

Law

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 at the Open University in the Netherlands and obtained his LLM

Master of Laws

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 with Latin honors

Latin honors

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External links

Province of South Holland website