The 61-year-old Annemarie Penn-te Strake is the new mayor of Maastricht. The City Council has nominated her Thursday as the successor of Onno Hoes
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By 1Limburg late Penn-te Strake know:! ,, This is very fine, really come home to me. I was a few months walked with mayor in the country to immerse myself in the office and the city I know of course very well because I live there for 23 years. ”
Annemarie Penn-te Strake of 2006 to 2012, Chief Justice in Maastricht and is the first female mayor of Maastricht. However, according to the chairman of the council that was not the reason why it has been nominated. ,, She has a powerful, but also a unifying personality. This ensures that we think they can be a powerful mayor. ”
Also, Penn-te Strake first-party mayor, said chairman Bert Boy D66 in the council. Like the other councilors he showed himself “very pleased” with her nomination.
Councillors praised her for her warm, but business personality, and her many contacts. “A fantastic choice,” said Alderman Andre Ward of the Senior Party Maastricht. The man Annemarie Penn-te Strake is chairman of the board of the Senior Party.
Onno Hoes
Penn-te Strake follows mayor Onno Hoes on, who announced his departure in December last year. The VVD felt he had to leave because he had been to discredit twice by an affair with a younger man. In a public letter, he announced: ,, The city is struggling greatly with the effects of a highly controversial press publication, and that I can struggle the city, its directors and no longer call myself ”
officers applying. seventeen people on the vacancy for mayor of Maastricht. Among the applicants were four liberals, four and three cda PvdA. It was about fifteen men and two women
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