Ahmed Aboutaleb

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Ahmed Aboutaleb (2007)

Ahmed Aboutaleb (born August 29, 1961 in Beni Sidel , Morocco ) is a Dutch politician of Moroccan descent. He is a member of the Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA) . At the end of October 2008 he became mayor of Rotterdam . Aboutaleb has both Dutch and Moroccan citizenship and is Muslim .

Life

Aboutaleb grew up as the son of an imam in a small village in the Moroccan Rif mountain range . On October 17, 1976, he came to the Netherlands with his mother and brothers. He learned the Dutch language and began studying at the Lagere technical school , then at the Middelbare technical school and the Hogere technical school , specializing in telecommunications . After his training he worked as a reporter for the radio station Veronica Omroep Organizatie and Nederlandse Omroep Stichting , then for the television news program RTL Nieuws . He later became press spokesman for the Ministry of Welfare, Health and Culture (Ministerie van Welzijn, Volksgezondheid en Cultuur) and the Sociaal-Economische Raad .

In 1998 he became director of the Forum Institute , the successor to the Dutch Center for Foreigners (Nederlands Centrum voor Buitenlanders) . Before he went into politics, he was employed as a civil servant in the municipality of Amsterdam . Here he introduced the practice at Amsterdam's primary schools, according to which they are only allowed to accept pupils from the immediate vicinity (Postcode Belief) .

After director Theo van Gogh was murdered in the street by an Islamist on November 2, 2004, Aboutaleb tried to moderate the public excitement. He became known as "the face of the immigrants" in the Partij van de Arbeid. He tried to explain the limits of Dutch tolerance to Arab immigrants and said in 2010: "Anyone who does not share the values ​​of an open society like the Dutch would do well to draw the conclusions from them and leave."

In the local elections on March 7, 2006, he received the most votes from all applicants, although he only occupied second place on the PvdA's list. In the new coalition of PvdA and GroenLinks he kept his area of ​​responsibility.

Aboutaleb was State Secretary for Social Affairs and Employment in the Balkenende IV cabinet .

On the evening of the attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo (January 7, 2015) Aboutaleb said in an interview with the Dutch TV station NOS addressed to Islamic extremists: “For heaven's sake, pack your bags and go! Maybe there is a place in the world where you can get by. But don't kill innocent journalists, that's so despicable. Disappear if you cannot find your place in the Netherlands. ”This sentence received widespread public attention.

mayor

On October 16, 2008 he was appointed Mayor of Rotterdam by the City of Rotterdam. On October 31, 2008, the Cabinet approved the appointment of Aboutaleb as Mayor of Rotterdam. On January 5, 2009, he succeeded Mayor Ivo Opstelten (VVD). Aboutaleb is considered to be the first mayor of Moroccan descent in the Netherlands and the first Muslim mayor of a major Western European city at all. On December 18, 2008, Jetta Klijnsma succeeded him as State Secretary for Social Affairs and Employment.

On the evening of March 11, 2017 Aboutaleb declared the entire urban area of ​​Rotterdam a special zone, in which public gatherings are not allowed, when the Dutch government withdrew the landing permit from the plane of the Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu (AKP), who was planning to campaign. Previously there had been diplomatic clashes between the Netherlands and Turkey, among other things; Aboutaleb had warned of disruptions to public order and called on the Rutte government to ensure that undesirable people are kept out of the Netherlands.

Web links

Commons : Ahmed Aboutaleb  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ ing. A. (Ahmed) Aboutaleb. Parlement & Politiek, accessed October 9, 2012 (Dutch).
  2. ↑ curriculum vitae burgemeester ahmed aboutaleb. City of Rotterdam, accessed December 8, 2016 (Dutch).
  3. ↑ spiegel.de November 10, 2007: Wave of violence hit the Netherlands
  4. ↑ cit. in: The Unease of the Dutch , Die Welt , March 5, 2010
  5. ↑ Hugo Logtenberg, Marcel Wiegman (2010): Job Cohen: burgemeester van Nederland , p. 152 ( online )
  6. ↑ see: Aboutaleb against jihadists: rot toch op! , NOS.nl , January 7th, 2015
  7. ↑ A world mayor for a world city ( Memento from August 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (tagesschau.de)
  8. ↑ FAZ.net March 11, 2017: The Netherlands send Turkish minister back to Germany
  9. ↑ NZZ.ch March 11, 2017: Police stand in the way of the Turkish minister
predecessor Office successor
Ivo Opstelten Mayor of Rotterdam
2008–
personal data
SURNAME Aboutaleb, Ahmed
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch journalist and politician (PvdA)
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Beni Sidel , Morocco