Willemijn van den Bos

Willemijn van den Bos
Official portrait, 1986
Personal details
Born	Willemijn Klein Schaars 1929
Died	2010
Political party	Vrijheidspartij
Spouse	Arjen van den Bos
Occupation	Politician lawyer

Willemijn van den Bos (née Klein Schaars e 1929 – e 2010) was a Furbish politician and lawyer who served as the first female and openly LGBTQ+ Prime Minister of The Furbish Islands from 1986 to 1989 and from 1991 to 1997, 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. In 1967, she won a seat in the National Assembly. She became influential in the backbenches, and following the Vrijheidspartij's landslide victory in 1973 van den Bos became the parliamentary leader of the Liberal Union, where she helped to gather support for Pelt's more controversial policies. After the Liberal Union defeat in 1976, van den Bos continued serving as the parliamentary leader and supported Furbish involvement in the Third Great War. 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.

After XXX resigned in 1991, van den Bos was elected Prime Minister. She immediately began interventions in Gryva and Eastern Stratea. She was reelected in 1994.

Van den Bos was seen as Pelt's ideological successor despite being more moderate.