Party for the Animals
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political party in the Netherlands
Key facts
- Abbreviation
- PvdD
- Leader
- Esther Ouwehand
- Chairman
- Zwanny Naber
- Leader in the senate
- Ingrid Visseren-Hamakers
- Leader in the house of representatives
- Esther Ouwehand
- Leader in the european parliament
- Anja Hazekamp
- Founders
- Marianne Thieme , Ton Dekker , Lieke Keller
- Founded
- 28 October 2002 ( 2002-10-28 )
- Headquarters
- Amsterdam
- Youth wing
- PINK!
- Think tank
- Nicolaas G. Pierson foundation
- Membership 2026
- 33,556
- Ideology
- Animal rights , Animal welfare , Anti-capitalism , Environmentalism
- Political position
- Left-wing to far-left
- European parliament group
- The Left in the European Parliament
- European political alliance
- Animal Politics EU
- Colours
- Dark green
- Senate
- 1 / 75
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- political party
- Country
- Netherlands
- Headquarters
- Amsterdam
- Official website
- www.partijvoordedieren.nl
- Image
- Tweede Kamerleden PvdD 2023, 2025.jpg
- Political ideology
- antispecism
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- Commons category
- Partij voor de Dieren
- sRGB color hex triplet
- 00743C
- topic's main category
- Category:Party for the Animals
- inception
- 2002-10-28
- short name
- PvdD
- political alignment
- left-wing
- member of
- Animal Politics EU
- social media followers
- 62059
- native label
- Partij voor de Dieren
- member count
- 33556
- number of seats in assembly
- 1
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Encyclopedic overview
The Party for the Animals (Dutch: Partij voor de Dieren [pɑrˈtɛi voːr də ˈdiːrə(n)], PvdD) is a political party in the Netherlands. Among its main goals are animal rights and animal welfare. The PvdD was founded in 2002 as a single-issue party for animal rights, opposing animal cruelty and the treatment of animals in agriculture. The party then developed into a left-wing, ecological party.
Since 2019, the PvdD's political leader is Esther Ouwehand. With 2.08% of the votes at the 2025 general election, the PvdD holds three of the 150 House of Representatives's seats. In the Senate, it has one of the 75 seats. PvdD holds 26 States-Provincial seats across all provinces. In the European Parliament, it has one of the 31 seats allocated to the Netherlands constituency.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Party for the Animals” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.