The committees of the House of Representatives will receive several petitions on Tuesday, December 2, as they do every meeting week. Citizens and organizations wishing to express their views come to the House of Representatives building to do so in the form of a petition submission. This time, the Members of Parliament will receive five petitions.
The petition submission takes place between 1:00 PM and 1:45 PM in the central hall of the House of Representatives, the Statenpassage. Citizens and organizations submit the petitions to various committees. Members of Parliament from those committees come to the Statenpassage to receive the petitions.
Petitions on Tuesday, December 2
- 1:00 PM: petition about sanctions against Israel due to the genocide in Gaza on behalf of DeGoedeZaak to the Committee on Foreign Affairs;
- 1:15 PM: manifesto Building an Economy That Works by Future Up, also on behalf of CEOs of Dutch companies, to the Committee on Economic Affairs;
- 1:15 PM: petition Saving Lives Should Not Cost Lives on behalf of Doctors Without Borders to the Committee on Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation;
- 1:30 PM: publication about the National Action Plan for Energy Storage and Conversion on behalf of ESNL to the Committee on Climate and Green Growth;
- 1:30 PM: petition Tax the Super Rich on behalf of Oxfam Novib to the Committee on Finance.
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 they believe receives too little attention in Parliament.
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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 on How Parliament Works.
