The committees of the House of Representatives will receive a number of petitions on Tuesday, March 18, as in 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 presentation. This time, the MPs will receive six petitions.
The petition presentation takes place between 1:30 PM and 2:00 PM in the central hall of the House of Representatives, the Statenpassage. The citizens and organizations present the petitions to various committees. MPs from those committees come to the Statenpassage to receive the petitions.
Petitions on Tuesday, March 18
- 1:30 PM: petition about maintaining accommodation for Ukrainian displaced persons on behalf of Inclusia to the Committee on Asylum and Migration;
- 1:30 PM: petition about the youth perspective on the new pension system on behalf of FNV Young & United, CNV Jongeren, Jong Management, and the National Student Union (LSVb) to the Committee on Social Affairs and Employment;
- 1:30 PM: petition on recognizing the genocide in Khojaly on behalf of Dutch Azerbaijanis to the Committee on Foreign Affairs;
- 1:30 PM: petition Space for Defense: Expansion of Weerterheide on behalf of residents and stakeholders of Boshoven and Weert to the Committee on Defense;
- 1:45 PM: petition on handling Woo requests on behalf of the Institute for Social Innovation (IMI), Open State Foundation (OSF), and the University of Amsterdam (UvA) to the Committee on Internal Affairs;
- 1:45 PM: petition Respect the human rights of migrants in Algeria on behalf of the Chahid Foundation for Help to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
What is a petition?
A petition is a way for citizens and organizations to make their voices heard. The petition may be about government plans with which the submitters disagree or about a topic that they believe is receiving 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.