Toine Beukering | |
Office: | Member of the Senate |
Term Start: | 2019 |
Office2: | Member of the Provincial Council of South Holland |
Term Start2: | 2019 |
Birth Name: | Antoine Beukering |
Birth Date: | 28 November 1958 |
Birth Place: | 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands |
Party: | JA21 |
Otherparty: | Forum for Democracy (until 2020) |
Toine Beukering (born 1958) is a Dutch politician and a member of the Senate. He was originally affiliated to the Forum for Democracy party but switched to JA21.
Beukering was a member of the Royal Dutch Army and took part in peace keeping operations in Burundi and the Ivory Coast.[1] He first entered politics when he was elected to the Provincial Council of South Holland as a member of the FvD party and was subsequently designated as a Senator.[2] In 2020, he defected to the Van Pareren group which later became the Senate faction of the JA21 party.[3]