Bart van Kent (born 18 December 1983) is a Dutch politician of the Socialist Party. Since 23 March 2017, he has been a member of the House of Representatives.[1]
In the 2006 municipal elections, Van Kent was elected to the Eindhoven municipal council. The next year, he resigned to move to The Hague. Between 2010 and 2017, Van Kent was a member of the municipal council of The Hague.[2] Since 2017, he has been a member of the House of Representatives for the Socialist Party.[3] He was re-elected in November 2023, and he has since served as the Socialist Party's spokesperson for labor, income, pensions, traffic, and defense.[4]
When in 2024 an early retirement scheme for workers in physically demanding occupations neared expiration and negotiations about its extension stalled, Van Kent and Luc Stultiens (GL/PvdA) filed an amendment to make the scheme permanent and to raise its maximum benefits. They planned to fund the expansion through canceling a planned broadening of the earnings stripping rule for large corporations.[5] [6] Negotiations facilitated by social affairs minister Eddy van Hijum finally led to an agreement on a permanent scheme in October 2024.[7]
| Body | Party | Votes | Result | . | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party seats | Individual | |||||||||||
| 2012 | House of Representatives | Socialist Party | style=text-align:right | 38 | style=text-align:right | 149 | style=text-align:right | 15 | [8] | |||
| 2017 | House of Representatives | Socialist Party | style=text-align:right | 9 | style=text-align:right | 957 | style=text-align:right | 14 | [9] | |||
| 2021 | House of Representatives | Socialist Party | style=text-align:right | 8 | style=text-align:right | 599 | style=text-align:right | 9 | [10] | |||
| 2023 | House of Representatives | Socialist Party | style=text-align:right | 3 | style=text-align:right | 1,580 | style=text-align:right | 5 | [11] |