Sjearp Groeneveld
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Sjearp Groeneveld | |
|---|---|
 Groeneveld in 2021 | |
| Secretary of the Environment | |
| Assumed office 28 September 2017 | |
| Premier | Liekele Ykema Hepke Veltman Ottila Möller |
| Preceded by | Björn Auer |
| Leader of Green - Alternative Choice | |
| Assumed office 11 December 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Aadu Kotka |
| Member of the Folkssenaat | |
| Assumed office 28 September 2014 | |
| Constituency | Wottested |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 November 1987 s'Holle, Hennehouwe |
| Nationality | Alslandic |
| Political party | Green - Alternative Choice |
| Spouse | Anna Groeneveld (m. 2021) |
| Children | 1 |
| Residence(s) | Wottested, Alsland |
| Alma mater | University of Wottested |
| Occupation | Politician · Solicitor |
| Website | Secretary of the Environment |
Sjearp Rik Groeneveld (born 2 November 1987) is an Alslandic politician serving as Secretary of the Environment since 2017. He is also the leader of Green - Alternative Choice since 2021 and has been a member of the Folkssenaat since 2014.
Born in s'Holle to a Hennish mother and an Aldman father from Estmere. Groeneveld graduated from the University of Wottested in in 2007 and was a Solicitor in Wottested for several years before being elected to the Folkssenaat in 2014. After Björn Auer's resignation, Groeneveld was appointed as the Secretary of the Environment on the request of Aadu Kotka. Groeneveld was the Green - Alternative Choice's candidate for President in 2020 and was only narrowly defeated by Hepke Veltman. He became leader of the party in 2021.
Early life
Groeneveld was born in s'Holle, Hennehouwe in 1987. He was the only child of Marije Deterink-Groeneveld (1950) and Hinric Groeneveld (1942-1999), Marije Deterink-Groeneveld was of Hennish-Dellish descent and was a school teacher at an elementary school in s'Holle whilst Hinric Groeneveld was of Weranian-Aldmanic descent and had migrated to s'Holle two years prior to Groeneveld's birth. In 1999 Marije Deterink-Groeneveld and Hinric Groeneveld divorced and Marije and Groeneveld migrated to Wottested to be with Marije's Dellish family. After the divorce Hinric died in a car crash in Etruria.
Groeneveld spent his teenage years in relative poverty and was dependent on regular welfare payments. He graduated from high school in 2003 before spending a year as a humanitarian aid worker in Bahia. The following year he enrolled in the University of Wottested and graduated with a degree on politics and sociology in 2007. After graduating he was briefly unemployed before gaining employment as a Solicitor. He became a prominent leader within the Jonge Groenen which he had been a member of since 2004. In 2012 he was labelled as Hjoed's #6 future stars to watch for his work in the party's youth group.
Political career
Folkssenaat
In 2014, Groeneveld was elected to the Folkssenaat and was thus expected to renounce his Hennish citizenship which he did not do. In 2020 shortly before the 2020 Presidential election The Yndyk Times reported on his dual-citizenship controversy, Groeneveld subsequently renounced his Hennish citizenship before an investigation by the Folkssenaat's standards committee could be launched. According to Joshua Wolfensohn of ANS the scandal likely cost Groeneveld the election as he had a slim but stable lead in opinion polls prior to the news breaking.