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Raoul Boucke
Boucke in 2014
Personal details
Born
R.M. Boucke

(1975-11-01) 1 November 1975 (age 48)
Paramaribo, Suriname
Political partyDemocrats 66
Alma materDelft University of Technology
OccupationCivil servant

Raoul M. Boucke (born 1 November 1975) is a Surinamese-Dutch civil servant and politician, serving as a member of the House of Representatives. He is a member of the social-liberal party Democrats 66 (D66). Before becoming a politician, he worked for two government ministries, the European Commission, and the Dutch representation to the European Union.

Early life and non-political career[edit]

Boucke was born in 1975 in the Surinamese capital Paramaribo. He grew up in Moengo with his brother and sister, and his family moved to Paramaribo when Boucke was eight years old. There, he attended the high school Miranda Lyceum. Boucke emigrated to the Netherlands in 1993 to study chemical engineering at the Delft University of Technology.[1] He graduated eight years later and became a Dutch citizen in 2002.[2][3]

After completing his study, Boucke took a job at the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, working on international affairs.[1][4] He started working as a civil servant for the European Union (EU) in Brussels in 2007.[5] He was first employed for four years by the permanent representation of the Netherlands to the EU, focusing on the environment, and subsequently served as an advisor on carbon markets to the Directorate-General for Climate Action of the European Commission.[1][4][6] In 2016, he returned to the Dutch permanent representation with transport as specialization.[4] He left that job in January 2020 to work at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management on aviation.[7][8]

Politics[edit]

Boucke became a member of Democrats 66 in 2002 and, starting in 2011, served as the chair of D66 in Belgium and Luxembourg, a position he would hold until 2017.[2][9] Boucke ran for Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in the 2014 election, being placed fifth on D66's party list. He received 6,663 preferential votes, but was not elected due to his party winning four seats.[10] In the next election five years later, Boucke appeared second on D66's party list.[11] During the campaign, he supported introducing a European carbon tax and lowering the voting age from eighteen to sixteen.[12][13] Once again, Boucke was not elected; D66 won two seats, but the number three on the party list, Samira Rafaela, received more preferential votes than Boucke's 22,500.[14]

He was again on D66's party list during the 2021 general election as their tenth candidate.[15]

Personal life[edit]

Boucke lives in Rotterdam and is openly gay.[7] He is married and his husband is called Jurgen.[6][1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d Snijders, Armand (13 April 2019). "Raoul Boucke: Mijn glas is altijd halfvol" [Raoul Boucke: My glass is always half full] (PDF). De Ware Tijd (in Dutch). p. B3 – via raoulboucke.nl.
  2. ^ a b "Even voorstellen..." [A small introduction...] (PDF). Democraat (in Dutch). Democrats 66. May 2019. p. 8.
  3. ^ Boucke, Raoul (23 February 2021). "Raoul Boucke | D66". Gaykrant (Interview) (in Dutch). Interviewed by Marene Elgershuizen. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
  4. ^ a b c Boucke, Raoul (16 May 2019). "Bèta's moeten hun vinger opsteken" [Science students should draw attention]. TW.nl (Interview) (in Dutch). Interviewed by Mischa Brendel. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
  5. ^ "Voor de toekomst van Europa: Van Brussel naar Almere en terug" [For Europe's future: From Brussels to Almere and back]. D66 Almere (Press release) (in Dutch). 22 October 2018. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
  6. ^ a b "Belg heeft een sterk Europees burgergevoel" [Belgians have a strong sense of being a European citizen] (PDF). Democraat (in Dutch). Democrats 66. September 2013. p. 20.
  7. ^ a b "Raoul Boucke". D66 (in Dutch). Retrieved 13 January 2021.
  8. ^ Kieskamp, Wilma (11 November 2020). "D66: een oud-voetballer op de kandidatenlijst, en weinig ministers" [D66: a retired football player on the party list and few ministers]. Trouw (in Dutch). Retrieved 13 January 2021.
  9. ^ "Kandidatenboek Tweede Kamerverkiezing 2021" [Candidate book House of Representatives 2021] (PDF). D66 (in Dutch). November 2020. p. 86. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
  10. ^ "Proces-verbaal van de verkiezingsuitslag van het Europees Parlement" [Records of the election results of the European Parliament] (PDF). Kiesraad (in Dutch). 30 May 2014. pp. 24–25. Retrieved 13 January 2021 – via Parlement.com.
  11. ^ "Terlouw lijstduwer voor D66-Europa" [Terlouw lijstduwer D66 Europe]. Trouw (in Dutch). 24 January 2019. p. 6.
  12. ^ Boucke, Raoul (5 April 2019). "Voer een Europese CO2 heffing in, en wel snel" [Introduce a European carbon tax, and soon]. Trouw (in Dutch). Retrieved 13 January 2021.
  13. ^ Boucke, Raoul (15 February 2019). "Zestienjarigen zijn wijs genoeg om te stemmen" [Sixteen-year-olds are wise enough to vote]. Trouw (in Dutch). Retrieved 13 January 2021.
  14. ^ "Uitslag Europees Parlementsverkiezing 2019" [Results European Parliament election 2019] (PDF). Kiesraad (in Dutch). 4 June 2019. p. 12–13. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
  15. ^ "D66-leden stemmen nieuwkomers omlaag" [D66 members vote down newcomers]. De Telegraaf (in Dutch). 2 December 2020. Retrieved 13 January 2021.


Category:1975 births Category:21st-century Dutch civil servants Category:21st-century Dutch politicians Category:Delft University of Technology alumni Category:Democrats 66 politicians Category:Dutch people of Surinamese descent Category:Gay politicians Category:LGBT members of the Parliament of the Netherlands Category:Living people Category:People from Paramaribo Category:People from Rotterdam Category:Surinamese emigrants to the Netherlands

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