Mayor Leeuwarden announces his departure | inside

"I consider this conference to be extremely honorable and I look forward to it too, when the congress will also be ready in mid-January to return to The Hague," says Crone.

Members of the provincial states in the Netherlands, the new Senate will choose next year in May. Under the constitutional law, it is allowed to associate mayor and member of the Senate, but Crone chose to resign from his mayoral post in the summer of 2019.

Crone was a member of the Labor Party from 1994 to 2007 on behalf of the PvdA. House of Representatives. He became Mayor of the Municipality of Leeuwarden in November 2007.