The committees of the House of Representatives will receive a number of petitions on Tuesday, April 1, as they do every meeting week. Citizens and organizations who want to make their voices heard come to the House of Representatives building to do this in the form of a petition submission. This time, the MPs 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, April 1
- 1:15 PM: petition Proud of the Waste Sector. Choose the build-up scenario towards a Circular Future on behalf of FNV to the committee for Infrastructure and Water Management;
- 1:30 PM: petition The Dark Side of Hope, Courage, and Pride: consequences of government policy on asylum and migration for municipalities and their residents on behalf of VNG to the committee for Asylum and Migration;
- 1:30 PM: petition Large Dutch companies call for circular action on behalf of MVO Nederland to the committee for Infrastructure and Water Management;
- 1:30 PM: petition Solving the nitrogen impasse requires not a soft, but a hard healer - Solutions from the Gelderse Vallei on behalf of Regio Foodvalley to the committee for Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security, and Nature;
- 1:45 PM: petition For strong legislation on fair entrepreneurship on behalf of FNV, MVO Nederland, and MVO Platform to the committee for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation;
- 1:45 PM: petition Strong performing arts, strong community on behalf of the Association of Theatre and Concert Hall Directors (VSCD) and PodiumKunsten Alliance to the committee for Education, Culture, and Science.
What is a petition?
A petition is a way for citizens and organizations to make their voices heard. The petition can, for example, 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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In addition to 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.