Hugo de Jonge

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In this Dutch name, the surname is De Jonge, not Jonge.
Hugo de Jonge
File:Hugo de Jonge, February 2023.jpg
De Jonge in 2023
King's Commissioner of Zeeland
Acting
Assumed office
16 September 2024
Preceded byHan Polman
Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations
In office
5 September 2023 – 2 July 2024
Prime MinisterMark Rutte
Preceded byHanke Bruins Slot
Succeeded byJudith Uitermark
Minister for Housing and Spatial Planning
In office
10 January 2022 – 2 July 2024
Prime MinisterMark Rutte
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byMona Keijzer
Leader of the Christian Democratic Appeal
In office
15 July 2020 – 10 December 2020
Preceded bySybrand van Haersma Buma
Succeeded byWopke Hoekstra
Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands
In office
26 October 2017 – 10 January 2022
Prime MinisterMark Rutte
Preceded byLodewijk Asscher
Succeeded bySigrid Kaag
Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport
In office
26 October 2017 – 10 January 2022
Prime MinisterMark Rutte
Preceded byEdith Schippers
Succeeded byErnst Kuipers
Personal details
BornHugo Mattheüs de Jonge
(1977-09-26) 26 September 1977 (age 48)
Bruinisse, Zeeland, Netherlands
PartyChristian Democratic Appeal
ResidenceRotterdam
Occupation

Hugo Mattheüs de Jonge (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɦyɣoː mɑˈteːjʏz də ˈjɔŋə]; born 26 September 1977) is a Dutch politician who has served as Acting King's Commissioner of Zeeland since 16 September 2024. A member of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), he was elected to its leadership in 2020 for the 2021 general election. He withdrew later that year, citing the impossibility of combining his position as Health Minister in charge of the COVID-19 pandemic efforts with his party leadership.[1] He later served in the fourth Rutte cabinet as Minister for Housing and Spatial Planning from 2022 until 2024 and Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations from 2023 until 2024.

Early life and career

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De Jonge studied at the Ichthus Hogeschool in Rotterdam to become a teacher in primary education and then continued in Zwolle a study for school management, which he completed with a diploma "school leader primary education."

He worked in education for five years, first as a schoolteacher and eventually as a primary school deputy director.[2]

De Jonge moved to national policy by working as a policy assistant for the CDA group in the House of Representatives in 2004. Between 2006 and 2010, he worked at the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science as political assistant to CDA Minister Maria van der Hoeven and State Secretary Marja van Bijsterveldt and as a policy assistant focusing on quality improvement of secondary education.[3]

Political career

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Alderman

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In 2010, De Jonge was appointed as an alderman in the Rotterdam municipal executive, tasked with the Education, Youth and Family portfolio. As such, he argued in 2013 on national television for the closing of the Islamic school association Ibn Ghaldoun after several problems came to light.[4][5]

Following the 2014 municipal election, De Jonge was again appointed an alderman, with the Healthcare portfolio. The same year, he was announced as the "Politician of the Year" in Rotterdam.[6] In October 2016, he announced a programme to persuade parents who are considered vulnerable to consider voluntary birth control.[7] As he left the Rotterdam politics in October 2017, he was awarded the municipal Wolfert van Borselenpenning.[8]

Minister

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In October 2017, De Jonge was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport in the Third Rutte cabinet.[9] During the administration of the oath and installation of the new Ministers, De Jonge received media attention because of his unusual choice of shoes, receiving both criticism and praise.[10][8]

After the resignation of Bruno Bruins as Minister for Medical Care on 19 March 2020, De Jonge became responsible for the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.[11] In this capacity, he initiated the development of a COVID-19 app.[2]

On 18 June 2020, De Jonge announced his candidacy for the leadership of the Christian Democratic Appeal, which had been vacant since the resignation of Sybrand van Haersma Buma in May 2019.[12] He won the vote against Pieter Omtzigt. As Minister for Housing and Spatial Planning, De Jonge introduced the Good Landlordship Act to regulate rented housing, and it passed both houses of parliament in March 2023.[13][14] He proposed an amendment the following year to extend rent control beyond public housing, and he filed a bill that would mandate a certain percentage of new housing to be affordable.[15][16] It went into effect in July 2024.[17] The fourth Rutte cabinet had been a caretaker government since July 2023. However, De Jonge continued introducing new legislative proposals as no housing-related subjects had been exempted from consideration by the House of Representatives.[18] His term as minister ended on 2 July 2024, when the Schoof cabinet was sworn in, and he became acting King's Commissioner of Zeeland on 16 September 2024, succeeding Han Polman.[19][20]

Political positions

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In his candidacy for the CDA leadership, De Jonge expressed his commitment to the political centre, seeing the CDA as a "broad people's party." He is seen as less right-wing on economic issues than his predecessors, having previously called for the market and competition in healthcare to be restrained.[2][21] He also believes his party should not cooperate with the right-wing populist parties, Party for Freedom and Forum for Democracy.[22]

Personal life

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De Jonge has a wife called Mirelle, and they have children.[23]

References

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