Hugo Berkhout Explained

Hugo Berkhout
Office:Member of the Senate
Term Start:26 October 2020
Term End:13 June 2023
Predecessor:Annabel Nanninga
Office2:Dutch; Flemish: [[Duoraadslid]] in the Amsterdam municipal council
Term Start2:27 June 2018
Term End2:1 April 2019
Birth Name:H.A. Berkhout
Birth Date:9 April 1974
Birth Place:Beesd, Netherlands
Party:JA21
Otherparty:Forum for Democracy (until November 2020)
Children:1

Hugo A. Berkhout (born 9 April 1974) is a Dutch currency specialist and politician. He served as a member of the Senate between October 2020 and June 2023. There, he represented the conservative and right-wing populist party Forum for Democracy until he stepped out of the party the following month amidst an internal crisis. He later joined the splinter party JA21.

Non-political career

Berkhout was born in the Gelderland village of Beesd and studied at an Amsterdam university. He subsequently worked for Delta Lloyd Bank as a fixed income manager and FX trader.[1] [2] Beside his job, he served as treasurer of the Dutch chapter of the industry body ACI Financial Markets Association and as head of the treasury committee of the self-regulatory organization Dutch Securities Institute, both in the years 2011–19.[2]

Between February 2017 and March 2019, he was ALM/liquidity/FX trade director at Amsterdam Trade Bank, a subsidiary of Alfa-Bank. Thereafter, he moved to the Cypriot municipality Strovolos to lead the treasury and financial institutions department of financial technology company iSignthis at their operations center.[3] In November 2020, he took a job as partner investments and treasury services at Kylla Corporate Transactions in Amsterdam.[4] [1]

Politics

A member of Forum for Democracy, Berkhout was on an advisory council to select candidates for the 2017 general election and also was on the party list himself (place 21).[5] [6] During the 2018 Amsterdam municipal election, he appeared on place eleven on the party list, but he did not receive a seat.[7] Berkhout was appointed Dutch; Flemish: [[duoraadslid]] in the Amsterdam municipal council by his party in June 2018. He was on the finances and economic affairs committee and continued to serve in that position until April 2019.[8] [9]

Berkhout was placed sixteenth on the party list of Forum for Democracy in the 2019 Senate election.[10] His party won twelve seats, and Berkhout was elected because he received eight preferential votes.[11] However, Berkhout declined the seat. All of his votes came from the Forum for Democracy members of the States of North Holland. Broadcasting station NH reported that they probably voted for him to prevent the fifteenth candidate, Robert Baljeu, from being elected, as he had been expelled from the party.[12]

Senator (2020–2023)

When Senator Annabel Nanninga went on parental leave in 2020, Berkhout was installed as temporary senator on 26 October.[13] A crisis broke out within Forum for Democracy in late November, when newspaper Het Parool published an article about extremist messages in WhatsApp groups of the party's youth organization.[14] On 27 November, fellow Forum for Democracy Senator Bob van Pareren posted a statement on Twitter on behalf of himself and three other senators including Berkhout, in which they announced that they would leave the party. They said they did not want to be part of "a party that does not distance itself from racism, antisemitism, and Nazism and that does not listen to criticism".[15] Berkhout officially left the Forum for Democracy caucus on 29 November and joined Fractie-Van Pareren (renamed Fractie-Nanninga in February 2021).[16] He also became the treasurer of his caucus.[4]

Berkhout became a permanent senator – as opposed to a temporary senator – on 15 December 2020, replacing Paul Cliteur, who had resigned due to the crisis at Forum for Democracy.[4] Fractie-Van Pareren announced on 24 December that they would join the new party JA21, that had been founded by two politicians who had left Forum for Democracy.[17] Berkhout ran for re-election in 2023 as the 18th candidate of JA21. The party won three seats, causing Berkhout's membership of the Senate to end on 13 June.[4] [18]

Parliamentary committees

While a temporary senator:[19]

While a permanent senator:[19]

Personal life

He lives in The Hague, is married, and has a daughter.[4] [1]

Notes and References

  1. New treasury services operation for Kylla clients . Kylla . 7 January 2021 . 16 December 2020 . Berkhout . Hugo .
  2. Web site: Notulen ALV 3 november 2011 te Amsterdam . ACI The Netherlands . Minutes general meeting 3 November 2011 in Amsterdam . Dutch . 15 November 2020 .
  3. Web site: H.A. (Hugo) Berkhout . 15 November 2020 . Dutch . Parlement.com . Parlementair Documentatie Centrum .
  4. Web site: H.A. Berkhout (Fractie-Van Pareren) . . nl . 24 September 2021 .
  5. News: Op dit zorgvuldig opgebouwde netwerk steunt Baudet . subscription . . 3 November 2017 . Baudet is supported by this carefully constructed network . 15 November 2020 . Dutch . Lievisse Adriaanse . Mark . De Witt Wijnen . Philip .
  6. Web site: Uitslag Tweede Kamerverkiezing 2017 (getekend exemplaar) . PDF . 15 November 2020 . Dutch . 152 . Kiesraad . Results 2017 general election (signed example) . 21 March 2017 .
  7. Web site: Verkiezingen Gemeenteraad, 21 maart 2018 . Gemeente Amsterdam . PDF . Municipal Elections, 21 March 2018 . 20 . March 2018 . Dutch . 15 November 2020 .
  8. Web site: Openbare vergadering op woensdag 27 juni 2018 . Dutch . 15 November 2020 . Public assembly on Wednesday 27 June 2018 . PDF . 11 July 2018 . Gemeente Amsterdam Raadsinformatie . 19 and 22 .
  9. Web site: Openbare vergadering op woensdag 3 april 2019 . Dutch . 15 November 2020 . Public assembly on Wednesday 3 April 2019 . PDF . 30 April 2019 . Gemeente Amsterdam Raadsinformatie . 10 .
  10. Web site: Uitslag Eerste Kamerverkiezingen 2019 . PDF . Results 2019 Senate election . 15 November 2020 . Dutch . Kiesraad . 64 and 66 . 31 May 2019 .
  11. Web site: Eerste Kamer 27 mei 2019 . Senate 27 May 2019 . Databank Verkiezingsuitslagen . Kiesraad . Dutch . 15 November 2020 .
  12. News: Forum voor Democratie lijkt weggestuurd Statenlid uit Eerste Kamer te weren . 27 May 2019 . . 15 November 2020 . Dutch . Forum for Democracy seemingly wants to keep expelled Provincial States member out of the Senate .
  13. Benoeming J.E.E. Keunen en tijdelijke benoeming H.A. Berkhout tot lid van de Eerste Kamer . Kiesraad . Appointment J.E.E. Keunen and temporary appointment H.A. Berkhout to the Senate . 15 November 2020 . Dutch . 27 October 2020 .
  14. News: Crisisdagen bij Forum voor Democratie, wat er tot nu toe gebeurde . . Dutch . 28 November 2020 . 25 November 2020 . Days of crisis at Forum for Democracy, what has happened so far .
  15. News: FvD-senatoren en Statenleden keren Baudet massaal de rug toe . . Dutch . 28 November 2020 . 27 November 2020 . Du Pré . Raoul . FvD senators and state members turn their back on Baudet in large numbers .
  16. Vijf senatoren stappen uit FVD-fractie . Five senators leave FvD caucus . nl . 30 November 2020 . 30 November 2020 . Eerste Kamer der Staten-Generaal .
  17. News: Senatoren fractie Van Pareren sluiten zich aan bij JA21 . . nl . 7 January 2021 . 24 December 2020 . Senators Fractie-Van Pareren join JA21 . Boersema . Wendelmoet .
  18. Web site: Proces-verbaal uitslag Eerste Kamerverkiezing 2023 . Dutch Electoral Council . Records of the results of the 2023 Senate election . 1 June 2023 . nl . 1 October 2023 . PDF . 68–70 .
  19. Web site: Lidmaatschappen H.A. Berkhout . Eerste Kamer der Staten-Generaal . 12 October 2022 . Dutch . Memberships H.A. Berkhout .

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