Substitute
Senator
Socialist Party (SP)
Senate - Eerste Kamer der Staten Generaal
NL - 2500 EA - The Hague
Netherlands
Working language: English
28/05/2021 - Standing Committee PACE welcomes new strategic framework for the Council of Europe, urges member States to increase funding 20/04/2021 - Session The Assembly sets out its vision of the Council of Europe's strategic priorities 30/03/2021 - Political Affairs and Democracy A contemporary vision of human rights for a forward-looking Council of Europe 25/01/2021 - Session PACE reviews the work of its subsidiary bodies over a whole year 01/11/2020 - Election observation Georgian elections: statement of the international observers
24/06/2021 | 16:25:25 Thank you very much, Mister President. On behalf of the group of Unified European Left, I congratulate this Assembly to have this debate today on this resolution on Afrophobia and anti-Black racism. My group wholeheartedly endorses the resolution and salutes rapporteur and my good friend Mr Momodou Malcolm JALLOW for the excellent work done by him and the staff of the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination under difficult Covid-19 conditions. Mister President, in case this Assembly... 23/06/2021 | 12:06:06 In my opinion the Istanbul Convention, that is first and foremost men, it is men who use violence against women. It is men who harass, beat, rape and kill wives, mothers, daughters. Women, they know well, women they do not know at all. Relatives and strangers, colleagues and subordinates, servants and women who will happen to have the bad luck to just be passing by. The scale of harassment of women, the number of men who violate women in their integrity and their dignity is all enormous and... 21/06/2021 | 18:16:11 Thank you Miss President, I'm very happy to see you for this very interesting debate. Democracy is of crucial importance that politicians are able to freely exercise their mandate. I quote the rapporteur where he emphasises in this first paragraph. This issue is most important in the resolution. On behalf of the Group of the Unified European Left I fully agree that freedom of speech and assembly both in parliament and when speaking in public meetings or through the media, including social... 21/06/2021 | 12:30:19 Thank you very much, Madam president. It's great to see you in the chair. When Ms Petra BAYR started her intervention, we had a full fledged female rostrum after the first intervention of a female rapporteur, so there is still hope for this Assembly in the future. I wish Ms Nicole TRISSE with her report, a more gender balance in this organization as well. Let me start to thank the rapporteur for her work, but also the other rapporteurs on the election observation, Mr Alfred HEER and Mr... 22/04/2021 | 10:19:54 Thank you, Mr President. Yesterday President Putin made his State of the Union, which was watched by millions of Russians and the President addressed many important issues, like the pandemic, the international tensions and the social and economic situation in Russia. There's one issue he did not mention in the State of the Union and that was the issue that was mentioned by thousands only a few hours later in the streets of Moscow and St Petersburg and Irkutsk and in Novossibirsk. That was the...
11/05/2021 | Doc. 15283 | Report Expenditure of the Parliamentary Assembly for the biennium 2022-2023 11/05/2021 | Doc. 15282 | Report Budgets and priorities of the Council of Europe for the period 2022-2025 31/03/2021 | Doc. 15252 | Report The Assembly's vision on the strategic priorities for the Council of Europe 28/01/2020 | Doc. 15050 | Report Challenge, on substantive grounds, of the still unratified credentials of the parliamentary delegation of the Russian Federation 09/04/2019 | Doc. 14863 | Report Role and mission of the Parliamentary Assembly: main challenges for the future
28/06/2021 | Doc. 15337 | Motion for a resolution The challenge of far-right ideology to democracy and human rights in Europe 25/06/2021 | Doc. 15334 | Motion for a resolution The ongoing worsening of the access of Ukraine’s national minorities to education in their mother tongues: need for a follow-up to Parliamentary Assembly Resolution 2189 (2017) 25/06/2021 | Doc. 15331 | Motion for a resolution Cases of torture and inhumane treatments in Azerbaijani prisons 25/06/2021 | Doc. 15332 | Motion for a resolution The need for renewed, effective and inclusive multilateralism 25/06/2021 | Doc. 15336 | Motion for a resolution European Convention on Human Rights and national constitutions
24/06/2021 | Doc. 15306, vote on the draft text for resolution Combating Afrophobia, or anti-Black racism, in Europe 22/06/2021 | Doc. 15310, vote on the draft text for resolution Overcoming the socio-economic crisis sparked by the Covid-19 pandemic 22/06/2021 | Doc. 15310, vote on the draft text for recommendation Overcoming the socio-economic crisis sparked by the Covid-19 pandemic 21/06/2021 | Doc. 15307, vote on the draft text for resolution Should politicians be prosecuted for statements made in the exercise of their mandate? 22/04/2021 | Doc. 15270, vote on the draft text for resolution The arrest and detention of Alexei Navalny in January 2021