Politics
The city council has 39 members. With 9 seats, the centre-left PvdA is the largest party on the council. The centre-right VVD has 6 seats. GroenLinks and Stadspartij both hold 5 seats. The Socialist Party and D66 both have 4 seats. The CDA and ChristenUnie are represented by 2 councilors each. The Students and City and the Party for the Animals both have one councilor.
Peter Rehwinkel has been the mayor since 2009.
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.”
—Mao Zedong (1893–1976)
“The Germans—once they were called the nation of thinkers: do they still think at all? Nowadays the Germans are bored with intellect, the Germans distrust intellect, politics devours all seriousness for really intellectual things—Deutschland, Deutschland Über alles was, I fear, the end of German philosophy.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.”
—Margaret Thatcher (b. 1925)