The committees of the House of Representatives receive, as in every meeting week, a number of petitions. Citizens and organizations who want to express their views come to the House of Representatives building to do so in the form of a petition submission. This week, the Members of Parliament will receive ten petitions.

The petition submission takes place 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 Monday 26 January

  • 2:30 PM: petition about the future of public broadcasting by the Dutch Association of Journalists (NVJ) to the Committee on Education, Culture and Science. 

Petitions on Tuesday 27 January

  • 1:00 PM: petition We have the right to honest clothing information by student movement Unfolding to the Committee on Climate and Green Growth;
  • 1:15 PM: petition about opportunities for protected ownership for digital sovereignty by We Are Stewards to the Committee on Digital Affairs;
  • 1:15 PM: petition about information integrity around climate by Reliable Climate Info to the Committee on Climate and Green Growth;
  • 1:30 PM: petition Between bullets and dreams about the life story of the 19-year-old Yazidi refugee Malik Khero Jirdo to the Committee on Asylum and Migration;
  • 1:30 PM: petition Launch the AOW-OV card by the foundation I Am Car-Free and AOW.nu to the Committee on Infrastructure and Water Management;
  • 1:30 PM: petition Our children are not a package! Arrange student transport nationally and humanely to the Committee on Education, Culture and Science;
  • 1:45 PM: petition Stop the American takeover of DigiD to the Committee on Digital Affairs;
  • 1:45 PM: petition Manifest Municipalities Nature Inclusive: municipalities ask for support and cooperation to strengthen green living environment by the municipality of Leidschendam-Voorburg to the Committee on Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Nature;
  • 1:45 PM: petition Youth are the future. Give them that too! by Bouwdepot, Valente, Youth Care Netherlands, MIND and Ingrado to the Committee on Health, Welfare and Sport.

What is a petition?

A petition is a way for citizens and organizations to make their voice heard. The petition can, for example, be about government plans that the submitters disagree with, or about a topic they believe receives too little attention in Parliament.

Read more

Besides voting in elections, there are other ways for citizens to influence politics; the petition is one of them. Read more at How Parliament works.