The committees of the House of Representatives will receive a number of petitions on Tuesday, May 20, as they do every meeting week. Citizens and organizations who want to express their views will come to the building of the House of Representatives to do this in the form of a petition presentation. This time, the Members of Parliament will receive four petitions.
The petition presentation will take place between 1:15 PM and 2:00 PM in the central hall of the House of Representatives, the Statenpassage. Citizens and organizations will present the petitions to various committees. Members of Parliament from those committees will come to the Statenpassage to receive the petitions.
Petitions on Tuesday, May 20
- 1:15 PM: petition Counselors/Midwives are fed up with quality requirements from CLBPS & SPS to the Committee for Health, Welfare and Sport;
- 1:30 PM: petition Stop the transport of very young animals! on behalf of the Animal Protection to the Committee for Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Nature;
- 1:35 PM: petition about starting an independent helpline for all forms of domestic violence on behalf of Valente and Federation Survivors to the Committee for Health, Welfare and Sport;
- 1:45 PM: petition about difficulties with the digital government on behalf of students from the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences to the Committee for Digital Affairs.
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 that they believe is receiving 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.