Farid Azarkan

Farid Azarkan (Arabic: فريد ازركان ; born 16 October 1971) is a Dutch businessman and politician of the politucal party DENK.

 Politics 
DENK won seats in the House of Representatives for the first time in the 2017 Dutch general election. The result caused Azarkan and fellow party members Tunahan Kuzu and Selçuk Öztürk tp besworn in on behalf of DENK on 23 March 2017. He has been an MP ever since and has also become both parliamentary leader on 21 March 2020 and – as successor of Kuzu – party leader on 26 September 2020.Azarkan was officially elected as leader of DENK, Teller Report, 26 September 2020

He led DENK into the 2021 Dutch general election in March 2021.

 Background 
Azarkan is of Moroccan origin, was born in Ighmiren, in the northeast of the Morocco, and moved to the Netherlands at the age of eight.

He studied topics like hotel management at the Christian University of Applied Sciences and in the evenings policy, communicatio, and organisation at the Free University Amsterdam and real property at the University of Greenwich and Saxion University of Applied Sciences.Biografie, onderwijs en loopbaan van Farid Azarkan , Tweedekamer.nl

He worked in various commercial jobs at the municipality of Amersfoort, as a manager (operations and buildings) at several government services and departments, and headed the Partnership of Moroccans in the Netherlands (SMN) from 2008 to 2016.Alles over Farid Azarkan: zijn herkomst, zijn politieke carrière en zijn privéleven, DeMediaGids.nl, 10 November 2020 Since 2015, he has been owbed the real estate consultancy "Cleverstone".

Azarkan is married for the second time with four children, lives in Culemborg and is a Muslim.DENK-Kamerlid Azarkan: Wij zijn geen verzuurde moslimmannen, Reformatorisch Dagblad, 4 September 2017

 References 
 Biography on Parlement.com

 Other websites 
 (English) Azarkan on the Dutch House of Representatives website
 Azarkan on the DENK website

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Category:Politicians from Gelderland