Willemijn van den Bos
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Willemijn van den Bos | |
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| Born | Willemijn Klein Schaars 1934 |
| Died | 2010 |
| Political party | Vrijheidspartij |
| Spouse | Arjen van den Bos |
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Willemijn van den Bos (née Klein Schaars e 1934 – e 2010) was a Furbish politician and lawyer who served as the first female Prime Minister of The Furbish Islands from 1986 to 1989 and from 1992 to 1995, as well as.
Van den Bos was born in rural Gelderman and recieved her BACHELORLAWS degree from UNIVERSITY in year. She joined XXX, a law firm which had clients including XXX, a film and TV studio established by Robbert Pelt in 1953. Van den Bos was assigned to XXX, where she got to know Pelt well. They shared many political views, and when Pelt turned to politics in 1966, van den Bos became one of the founding members of the Vrijheidspartij. She continued to work as a lawyer, this time for the Vrijheidspartij, but in 1973 van den Bos ran for and won a seat in the National Assembly during the Vrijheidspartij's landslide victory. She served on the backbenches and became very influential, helping to gather support for Pelt's more controversial policies. She climbed the ranks quickly, and when Pelt's second term began in 1979, van den Bos was made Minister of XXX, then became Minister of XXX in XXX, then Deputy Prime Minister of Infrastructure in 1983, where she had a leading role in the post-Third Great War recovery plans.
In 1986 Pelt chose van den Bos as the deputy leader of the Liberal Union, a position she held for a few months until Pelt's election as Stadtholder later that year. She became the next Prime Minister, becoming the first woman elected to the position. During her first term, van den Bos continued Pelt's post-war recovery plans and oversaw continued economic growth. Pelt's economic liberal policies were the main point of debate now that the Third Great War ended, and van den Bos defended them. Within the Liberal Union, however, members were split between moderates, led by van den Bos, and radicals under XXX, who believed Pelt's economic liberal policies did not go far enough. XXX won the Liberal Union leadership election in 1989, but the Liberal Union lost its majority during the National Assembly election that year.
Van den Bos was seen as Pelt's ideological successor despite being more moderate.
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