Martin Bosma

Martin Bosma (born 16 July 1964) is a Dutch politician and former journalist who has been serving as the Speaker of the House of Representatives since 14 December 2023.

Born in Wormer, Bosma studied political science with a specialisation in public administration at the University of Amsterdam and sociology at the New School of Social Research in New York City.

He has been pursuing a doctorate at the University of Amsterdam, but his dissertation about the Dutch involvement in the anti-apartheid movement was rejected for a second time in 2024.

[1] He worked many years for several news media, first as a reporter for one of his local papers, De Zaanlander, and as one of the principal anchormen for Hoeksteen Live, a monthly cable TV programme in the 1990s described as a "political programme with a cultural supplement",[2] and subsequently for outlets including CNN Business News, ABC's Nightline and NOS Journaal.

In March 2009, Bosma submitted a motion to limit the number of current affairs programs on Dutch public broadcasters VARA and NPS starting in 2010.

Opposition leader Jesse Klaver of GroenLinks confronted him during his 2023 candidacy for Speaker of the House of Representatives with his claim.

Together with his party colleague Tony van Dijck, he spent six weeks at the Ministry of Finance in order to find 18 billion euros in budget cuts with Minister Jan Kees de Jager (CDA) and State Secretary Frans Weekers (VVD).

[15] In May 2024, shortly after the agreement between PVV, VVD, NSC and BBB to form a new Dutch government was presented, Bosma interrupted Laurens Dassen of Volt Netherlands in a plenary debate for using the word extreemrechts ("extreme right") when referring to the Party for Freedom.

[16] Later that year, Bosma's invitation to the national slavery remembrance on Ketikoti was withdrawn because of statements he made before becoming speaker.