State Secretary for Interior and Kingdom Relations Ank Bijleveld-schouten of Netherlands

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Anna Theodora Bernardina (Ank) Bijleveld-Schouten was born in IJsselmuiden on 17 March 1962.

On 22 February 2007 Ms Bijleveld-Schouten was appointed State Secretary for the Interior and Kingdom Relations in the fourth Balkenende government.

Bijleveld-Schouten said she would request information about the political situation and the possible consequences for the constitutional trajectory.

Hero Brinkman wants to unilaterally impose independance for the Antilles but Ank Bijleveld-Schouten has repeatedly said that this is not technically possible and is not as easy as it sounds and that the citizens of the Antilles have chosen to stay within the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

State Secretary for the Interior and Kingdom Relations in The NetherlandsMs Bijleveld-Schouten has been State Secretary for the Interior and Kingdom Relations since February 2007.

From 1986 to 1989 Ms Bijleveld-Schouten was a member of the municipal council of Enschede for the Christian Democratic Alliance (CDA) and, from 1989 to 2001, member of the House of Representatives of the States General.

THE HAGUE - Dutch State Secretary of Kingdom Relations Ank Bijleveld-Schouten has reassured the Second Chamber that the Round Table Conference (RTC) on December 15 will not be the final meeting in the constitutional process.

regarding the Police Force, expensive connections between St.

Bijleveld-Schouten met with the people of Bonaire on Thursday.

Deputy Interior Minister Ank Bijleveld-Schouten said in a letter to parliament she would "immediately draw up specifications for the development, functionality, protection and use of voting machines.

But he said the measures Bijleveld-Schouten had promised provided no guarantee that citizens could be confident their vote was being accurately recorded with the current generation of flawed machines, used in 90 percent of polling stations.

Ms Bijleveld-Schouten has commended Aruba for complying with a ruling handed down in April by the Supreme Court of the Netherlands.

State Secretary of Kingdom Relations Ank Bijleveld-Schouten has never denied the allegations of corruption made by Dutch Second Chamber member.