- Leen Verbeek
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name = Leen Verbeek
imagesize = 185px
caption = Leen Verbeek, 2007.
birth_date = 1955
birth_place =Leiderdorp ,The Netherlands .
residence =Purmerend
death_date =
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office =Mayor ofPurmerend
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term_start = 2003
term_end = present
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party = PvdA
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website = http://www.leenverbeek.nl/
footnotes =Leen Verbeek (born
Leiderdorp , 1955) is a Dutchentrepreneur andpolitician . He is a member of the Dutch Labour Party (PvdA). He has served asmayor ofPurmerend since April 2003. [nl icon http://www.nieuwsbank.nl/inp/2003/03/28/R167.htm] [nl icon [http://www.purmerend.nl/smartsite.dws?id=52415 Web site of the Mayor of Purmerend] ]Verbeek spent his early years in
Eindhoven . [nl icon http://www.leenverbeek.nl/artikel1.html] After the MULO (current-day VMBO) and a year ofhigh school in the USA he attended the Academie voor Educatieve Arbeid inBaarn . He then started work as a young people worker inLeiden .Ten years later Verbeek started his political career through many political institutions, ending up as
alderman inHouten (1989-1996). Until he was chosen as mayor ofPurmerend in 2003 he ran his own company.On 18 December 2007 it was announced that Verbeek was a candidate for mayor of Eindhoven along with
Rob van Gijzel [nl icon http://www.referendumeindhoven.nl/Leen_Verbeek] . Areferendum was held on 23 January 2008, in which Verbeek scored 33% of the votes, but because the required number of voters was not met, the referendum was nullified and the decision was made in-house, which resulted in Rob van Gijzel being appointed mayor of Eindhoven. [nl icon http://www.leenverbeek.nl/default.htm]Sources
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