The House of Representatives receives one or more petitions every meeting week. Citizens and organizations who wish to express their views come to the building of the House of Representatives to do this in the form of a petition presentation. On Tuesday, February 18, Members of Parliament will receive a petition.
The petition presentation takes place between 13:15 and 14:00 in the central hall of the House of Representatives, the Statenpassage. Citizens and organizations can present the petitions to different committees. Members of Parliament from those committees come to the Statenpassage to receive the petitions.
Petition on Tuesday, February 18
- 13:30: petition Prevent cuts on public transport on behalf of Transport Region Amsterdam to the committee for Infrastructure and Water Management.
What is a petition?
A petition is a way for citizens and organizations to make their voices heard. The petition can be about government plans that the submitters disagree with, or about a topic that they feel receives too little attention in the House.
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Besides voting in elections, there are other ways for citizens to influence politics; the petition is one of them. Read more at How the House works.