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In the 2006 elections Vos was placed on place 38 of the list of the PvdA. Both the conservative liberal VVD and the progressive liberal D66 had asked Vos to consider running for them. Because of the PvdA did not perform particularly well in the elections, Vos was not elected immediately. When several MPs became minister in the Fourth Balkenende cabinet Vos did get a seat. Vos is spokesperson on freelancer-, temporarily employed and consumer affairs. She sits in the commissions on finance, European Affairs, Economic Affairs, Social Affairs and the Environment. Vos is also member of the Board of directors of the public radio broadcaster FunX. As an MP she wants to give free lancers and the temporarily employed a voice in parliament and share the risks of a dynamic labour market more equally between free lancers, part time employed and temporarily employed and people with a fixed contract. Vos considers herself to be a social liberal, while the PvdA is a social-democratic party.
Read more about this topic: Mei Li Vos, Political Career 2006
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