Ines Kostić | |
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Member of the House of Representatives | |
Assumed office 6 December 2023 | |
Member of the Provincial Council of North Holland | |
Assumed office 28 March 2019 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Ines Kostić 21 October 1984 Mostar, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia |
Political party | Party for the Animals |
Residence(s) | Hilversum, Netherlands |
Alma mater | |
Ines Kostić (born 21 October 1984) is a Bosnian-born Dutch political scientist and politician of the Party for the Animals (PvdD), who has served as a member of the Provincial Council of North Holland since 2019, and as a member of the House of Representatives since 2023. [1] They are the first non-binary person to have been elected into the House of Representatives. [2]
Kostić was born in Mostar in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina into a multiethnic family of Croats, Serbs and Bosniaks. [3] At the age of 10, they fled the Bosnian War with their parents, seeking refuge in the Netherlands. [4] Kostić obtained a bachelor's degree in art, culture and media studies from the University of Groningen. [1] They subsequently completed a master's programme in political science at the University of Antwerp. [1]
In May 2017, Kostić became a board member of the Animal Politics Foundation – the international branch of the Party for the Animals. [1] They won a seat in the provincial council of North Holland in the 2019 provincial election, and were re-elected in the 2023 provincial election. [1] On 22 November 2023, Kostić ran in the snap general election as the second candidate on the PvdD list, and was elected into the House of Representatives. [5] They were installed as MP on 6 December 2023, and they are their party's spokesperson for environment, agriculture, the interior, infrastructure, housing, education, culture, social affairs, and healthcare. [1] [6]
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Year | Body | Party | Pos. | Votes | Result | Ref. | ||
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Party seats | Individual | |||||||
2017 | House of Representatives | Party for the Animals | 28 | 1,377 | 5 | Lost | [7] | |
2021 | House of Representatives | Party for the Animals | 12 | 10,013 | 6 | Lost | [8] | |
2023 | House of Representatives | Party for the Animals | 2 | 15,232 | 3 | Won | [9] |
Ines Kostić | |
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Member of the House of Representatives | |
Assumed office 6 December 2023 | |
Member of the Provincial Council of North Holland | |
Assumed office 28 March 2019 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Ines Kostić 21 October 1984 Mostar, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia |
Political party | Party for the Animals |
Residence(s) | Hilversum, Netherlands |
Alma mater | |
Ines Kostić (born 21 October 1984) is a Bosnian-born Dutch political scientist and politician of the Party for the Animals (PvdD), who has served as a member of the Provincial Council of North Holland since 2019, and as a member of the House of Representatives since 2023. [1] They are the first non-binary person to have been elected into the House of Representatives. [2]
Kostić was born in Mostar in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina into a multiethnic family of Croats, Serbs and Bosniaks. [3] At the age of 10, they fled the Bosnian War with their parents, seeking refuge in the Netherlands. [4] Kostić obtained a bachelor's degree in art, culture and media studies from the University of Groningen. [1] They subsequently completed a master's programme in political science at the University of Antwerp. [1]
In May 2017, Kostić became a board member of the Animal Politics Foundation – the international branch of the Party for the Animals. [1] They won a seat in the provincial council of North Holland in the 2019 provincial election, and were re-elected in the 2023 provincial election. [1] On 22 November 2023, Kostić ran in the snap general election as the second candidate on the PvdD list, and was elected into the House of Representatives. [5] They were installed as MP on 6 December 2023, and they are their party's spokesperson for environment, agriculture, the interior, infrastructure, housing, education, culture, social affairs, and healthcare. [1] [6]
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Year | Body | Party | Pos. | Votes | Result | Ref. | ||
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Party seats | Individual | |||||||
2017 | House of Representatives | Party for the Animals | 28 | 1,377 | 5 | Lost | [7] | |
2021 | House of Representatives | Party for the Animals | 12 | 10,013 | 6 | Lost | [8] | |
2023 | House of Representatives | Party for the Animals | 2 | 15,232 | 3 | Won | [9] |