Party for the Animals

Party for the Animals

Partij voor de Dieren
Party for the Animals Partij voor de Dieren
Abbreviation	PvdD
Leader	Esther Ouwehand
Chairman	vacant
Leader in the Senate	Niko Koffeman
Leader in the House of Representatives	Esther Ouwehand
Leader in the European Parliament	Anja Hazekamp
Founders	Marianne Thieme ; Ton Dekker ; Lieke Keller
Founded	28 October 2002
Headquarters	Amsterdam
Youth wing	PINK!
Think tank	Nicolaas G. Pierson foundation
Membership (2024)	30,333
Ideology	Animal rights; Animal welfare; Anti-capitalism; Environmentalism; Soft Euroscepticism
Political position	Left-wing to far-left
European affiliation	Animal Politics EU
European Parliament group	The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL
Colours	Dark green
House of Representatives	3 / 150
Senate	3 / 75
States-Provincial	26 / 572
European Parliament	1 / 31
King's Commissioners	0 / 12
Benelux Parliament	1 / 21
Website
	www.partijvoordedieren.nl; www.partyfortheanimals.nl; www.pinkpolitiek.nl
	Politics of the Netherlands; Political parties; Elections;

The Party for the Animals (Dutch: Partij voor de Dieren [pɑrˈtɛi voːr də ˈdiːrə(n)], PvdD) is a political party in the Netherlands. Among its main goals are animal rights and animal welfare.^[3] The PvdD was founded in 2002 as a single-issue party for animal rights, opposing animal cruelty and the treatment of animals in agriculture. The party then developed into a left-wing, ecological party.^[8]

Since 2019, the PvdD's political leader is Esther Ouwehand. With 2.25% of the votes at the 2023 general election, the PvdD holds three of the 150 House of Representatives's seats. In the Senate, it has three of the 75 seats. PvdD holds 26 States-Provincial seats across all provinces. In the European Parliament, it has one of the 29 seats allocated to the Netherlands constituency.

^ "Ledentallen Nederlandse politieke partijen per 1 januari 2024" [Membership of Dutch political parties as of 1 January 2024]. University of Groningen (in Dutch). Documentation Centre Dutch Political Parties. 28 February 2024. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
^ Brouwer, Daphne; Coulter, Kendra; Fitzgerald, Amy (2022). "Animal Protection Organizations and Public Policy: The Case of the Netherlands". Politics and Animals. 8 (1): 1-11.
^ ^a ^b ^c Nordsieck, Wolfram (2021). "Netherlands". Parties and Elections in Europe. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
^ ten Hooven, Marcel (18 July 2018). "De haas in de wedstrijd". De Groene Amsterdammer (in Dutch) (29–30). Nu moet gezegd: de Partij voor de Dieren is ook moeilijk in het politieke landschap te lokaliseren. Vanwege haar activisme en haar antikapitalisme wordt ze in de publieke opinie doorgaans met links geassocieerd. [Now it must be said: the Party for the Animals is also difficult to locate in the political landscape. Because of its activism and anti-capitalism, it is usually associated with the left in public opinion.]
^ "A eurosceptic's guide to the Dutch election". The Eurosceptic.
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- "Links en rechts". parlement.com.
- Dziadosz, Alex (16 November 2016). "The Dutch farmers' revolt". The Economist. Jur Faber, an avuncular man with a white moustache and reading glasses, who represented the left-wing Party for the Animals, which campaigns for animal rights, had the floor.
- de Beer, Paul; Berg, Maarten (2012). "Solidarity in a multicultural neighbourhood. Results of a field experiment". AIAS working paper (125). Amsterdam Institute for Advanced labour Studies, University of Amsterdam. Players who voted for the right-wing parties PVV and VVD donate the least, players who voted for the left-wing PvdD and SP, but also those who voted for the Christian-democratic CDA give the most to other players.
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- White, Traci (26 March 2019). "Recount request from PVV and Party for the Animals denied". The Northern Times. The far right PVV and far left Party for the Animals in Groningen called for a recount of the provincial council election votes, but Groningen mayor Peter den Oudsten has denied their request.
- Como, James (21 March 2017). "Letter from Amsterdam: March 18-21". New English Review. Still, the far left PvdD lost a staggering twenty-nine seats.
^ Nichols, Dick; Wroth, Will (21 March 2017). "Dutch election: GreenLeft and Animal Rights gains the bright spots as Wilders stalls and mainstream right strengthens". links.org.au.

[1] "Ledentallen Nederlandse politieke partijen per 1 januari 2024" [Membership of Dutch political parties as of 1 January 2024]. University of Groningen (in Dutch). Documentation Centre Dutch Political Parties. 28 February 2024. Retrieved 28 February 2024.

[2] Brouwer, Daphne; Coulter, Kendra; Fitzgerald, Amy (2022). "Animal Protection Organizations and Public Policy: The Case of the Netherlands". Politics and Animals. 8 (1): 1-11.

[PEE-3] Nordsieck, Wolfram (2021). "Netherlands". Parties and Elections in Europe. Retrieved 24 March 2021.

[amster-4] ten Hooven, Marcel (18 July 2018). "De haas in de wedstrijd". De Groene Amsterdammer (in Dutch) (29–30). Nu moet gezegd: de Partij voor de Dieren is ook moeilijk in het politieke landschap te lokaliseren. Vanwege haar activisme en haar antikapitalisme wordt ze in de publieke opinie doorgaans met links geassocieerd. [Now it must be said: the Party for the Animals is also difficult to locate in the political landscape. Because of its activism and anti-capitalism, it is usually associated with the left in public opinion.]

[5] "A eurosceptic's guide to the Dutch election". The Eurosceptic.

[leftw-6] 
"Links en rechts". parlement.com.
Dziadosz, Alex (16 November 2016). "The Dutch farmers' revolt". The Economist. Jur Faber, an avuncular man with a white moustache and reading glasses, who represented the left-wing Party for the Animals, which campaigns for animal rights, had the floor.
de Beer, Paul; Berg, Maarten (2012). "Solidarity in a multicultural neighbourhood. Results of a field experiment". AIAS working paper (125). Amsterdam Institute for Advanced labour Studies, University of Amsterdam. Players who voted for the right-wing parties PVV and VVD donate the least, players who voted for the left-wing PvdD and SP, but also those who voted for the Christian-democratic CDA give the most to other players.

[7] "Links en rechts". parlement.com.

[8] Dziadosz, Alex (16 November 2016). "The Dutch farmers' revolt". The Economist. Jur Faber, an avuncular man with a white moustache and reading glasses, who represented the left-wing Party for the Animals, which campaigns for animal rights, had the floor.

[9] Beer, Paul; Berg, Maarten (2012). "Solidarity in a multicultural neighbourhood. Results of a field experiment". AIAS working paper (125). Amsterdam Institute for Advanced labour Studies, University of Amsterdam. Players who voted for the right-wing parties PVV and VVD donate the least, players who voted for the left-wing PvdD and SP, but also those who voted for the Christian-democratic CDA give the most to other players.

[farw-7] 
White, Traci (26 March 2019). "Recount request from PVV and Party for the Animals denied". The Northern Times. The far right PVV and far left Party for the Animals in Groningen called for a recount of the provincial council election votes, but Groningen mayor Peter den Oudsten has denied their request.
Como, James (21 March 2017). "Letter from Amsterdam: March 18-21". New English Review. Still, the far left PvdD lost a staggering twenty-nine seats.

[11] White, Traci (26 March 2019). "Recount request from PVV and Party for the Animals denied". The Northern Times. The far right PVV and far left Party for the Animals in Groningen called for a recount of the provincial council election votes, but Groningen mayor Peter den Oudsten has denied their request.

[12] Como, James (21 March 2017). "Letter from Amsterdam: March 18-21". New English Review. Still, the far left PvdD lost a staggering twenty-nine seats.

[8] Nichols, Dick; Wroth, Will (21 March 2017). "Dutch election: GreenLeft and Animal Rights gains the bright spots as Wilders stalls and mainstream right strengthens". links.org.au.

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