The committees of the House of Representatives will receive several petitions on Tuesday, December 9, as they do every parliamentary 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 six petitions.
The petition submission takes place between 1:15 PM and 2:00 PM in the central hall of the House of Representatives, the Statenpassage. Citizens and organizations present the petitions to various committees. Members of Parliament from those committees come to the Statenpassage to receive the petitions.
Petitions on Tuesday, December 9
- 1:15 PM: petition Financial worries among youth by State of Youth NL to the Committee for Social Affairs and Employment;
- 1:15 PM: petition Protect Dutch citizens against pollution by Nature & Environment to the Committee for Infrastructure and Water Management;
- 1:30 PM: petition Estates and country houses at risk due to new box 3 system by the Foundation for Nature Conservation Law and Box 3 to the Committee for Finance;
- 1:30 PM: petition On their backs - structural overload at courier companies by FNV Transport and Logistics to the Committee for Social Affairs and Employment;
- 1:30 PM: petition Give us a crossing without detours! by the Cyclists Union to the Committee for Infrastructure and Water Management;
- 1:45 PM: petition Stop the DAEB about the disadvantages of the new financing system for childcare on behalf of five hundred childcare organizations to the Committee for Social Affairs and Employment.
What is a petition?
A petition is a way for citizens and organizations to make their voices heard. The petition can, for example, concern government plans with which the submitters disagree, or 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.
