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Ilse Bezaan

Dutch politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ28861881
Source-derived summary

Ilse Bezaan (born 1 January 1968) is a Dutch politician affiliated to the Party for Freedom (PVV).

Bezaan attended a hospitality management college in Maastricht before studying a law degree at the University of Amsterdam. She subsequently worked as a corporate lawyer. From 2006 to 2019 she also ran a yoga school. In 2015 she was elected for the PVV in the Provincial Council of North Holland. In 2019, Bezaan was elected a member of the Senate with preferential votes.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Ilse Bezaan” as dutch politician. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ilse, Bezaan and Dutch.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1968, 2006, 2019, 2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1968-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Ilse, Bezaan and Dutch providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Ilse Bezaan”, the useful work is to connect “dutch politician” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28861881. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1968, 2006, 2019 and 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from Ilse Bezaan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.