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SP Senator Tiny Kox

Tiny Kox (1953, Zeelst) acquired degrees in Eersel (1970) and Eindhoven (1973), and afterward received a law degree at the University of Tilburg (1975), where he has lived since 1973. From 1978 to 1982 he was active as the coordinator of the Tilburg legal-aid centre. In 1978 he became editor of the Buurtkrant, an activist housing bulletin published by the SP, of which he had become a member in 1975.

In 1981 he became editor-in-chief of the SP party magazine De Tribune and a member of the SP Steering Committee, both of which functions he held until 1994. In 1982 he became the first SP member in the Tilburg city council, of which he remained a member until 1999.

In 1994, when the SP made its entry in the national Lower House, he became general secretary of the party and was thereby charged with its day-to-day management. He was reelected in the congresses of 1996 and 1999 to this function, which he filled until 2003. Between 1994 and 2003 he led the party's election campaigns and was involved with its national extra-parliamentary actions.

At the 12th SP congress in 2003 he bid farewell as general secretary and two days later was chosen as a member of the Dutch Senate (Eerste Kamer), where he now chairs the four-person SP party group. In this function he is also a member of the SP Steering Committee.