The committees of the House of Representatives will receive a number of petitions on Tuesday, February 4, as in every parliamentary week. Citizens and organizations who want to express their viewpoints come to the building of the House of Representatives to do so in the form of a petition presentation. This time, the MPs will receive six petitions.
The petition presentation takes place between 1:15 PM and 2:00 PM in the central hall of the House of Representatives, the Statenpassage. The citizens and organizations offer the petitions to different committees. MPs from those committees come to the Statenpassage to receive the petitions.
Petitions on Tuesday, February 4
- 1:15 PM: petition about the importance of the right to freedom of religion and belief on behalf of Open Doors and Humanist Association to the Foreign Affairs committee;
- 1:15 PM: petition Give the Mouflon a Chance on behalf of Mouflon Association to the Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Nature committee;
- 1:30 PM: petition about maintaining the National Aliens Provision (LVV) on behalf of PKN, Church in Action, and several organizations to the Asylum and Migration committee;
- 1:30 PM: petition about statutory bereavement leave on behalf of Marrit van Exel to the Social Affairs and Employment committee;
- 1:30 PM: petition about sexual abuse on behalf of Friends of Esthers to the Justice and Security committee;
- 1:45 PM: petition about the argument map non-European Cloud Services on behalf of ECP and AMS-IX to the Digital Affairs committee.
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 believe 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.