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CURRENT MAYOR

Ank Bijleveld

Ank Bijleveld (CDA) was installed as acting mayor of Almere on 17 January 2022.

From October 2017 to September 2021, Ank Bijleveld was Minister of Defense in the Rutte III cabinet. From 2011 to 2017 she was the King's Commissioner in the province of Overijssel. Before that, State Secretary of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, mayor of Hof van Twente, also chairman of the Twente Security Region and member of the House of Representatives on behalf of the CDA.

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FORMER MAYOR

Franc Weerwind

Franc Weerwind was born in Amsterdam, of Surinamese descent. He grew up in Nieuw-Vennep, and followed his studies in Public Administration at Leiden in 1987, where he joined the student association; at the same time as the then Crown Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands.

In 2000, he became deputy city manager of Leiderdorp and a year later he became city manager of Wormerland. In late 2004, he was appointed mayor of...

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