Marco Pastors
| Marco Pastors | |
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| One NL list puller | |
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In office August 2006 – November 2006 |
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| Member of the municipal council of Rotterdam | |
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In office 2006–2012 |
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| Alderman of the municipality of Rotterdam | |
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In office 2002–2005 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
10 September 1965 Beneden-Leeuwen, Netherlands |
| Political party | Livable Rotterdam, Eén NL |
| Residence | Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| Website | www.eennl.nl |
Marcus Gerhardus Theodorus (Marco) Pastors (born 10 September 1965 in Beneden-Leeuwen) is a Dutch civil servant and former politician. Since 1 February 2012 he has been director of the Nationaal Programma Kwaliteitssprong Zuid, a project of the city of Rotterdam to improve living conditions in the south of Rotterdam.
Pastors was political leader of the local party Livable Rotterdam (Leefbaar Rotterdam), a member of the city council and also an alderman of the municipality of Rotterdam. Besides he was political leader of One NL (Een NL), a Dutch political party at the national level.
In his political pamphlet At your service which was published in 2006 he described his catholic and rural upbringing as unremarkable, with his parents' problematic marriage as a recurring theme. He obtained a degree in economics from Erasmus University in 1989 and from 1990 to 1993 he worked for OV-studentenkaart BV (a company managing public transportation for students) then headed by Pim Fortuyn, his future political ally. He then went on to work for Getronics and later on for Zenc (an IT provider for the public sector) of which he was a co-founder.
Pastors started his political career in January 2002 when his formed boss Fortuyn was elected leader of Livable Rotterdam (Leefbaar Rotterdam). He was given the responsibility for infrastructure and housing as an alderman and he focused on improving living conditions in some of the Rotterdam slum areas. He introduced measures which allowed tenants to buy their house and also introduced legislation banning prospective residents without a proper income or job prospects given the high unemployment and poverty in some residential area's. Some of these initiatives (called the Rotterdam Wet) were supported by national politicians.
Pastors was critical of the proliferation of mosques, the erection of minarets and was opposed to practises associated with new immigrants with a Muslim background such as honor killings, polygamy, forced marriage and suppression of women. On a regular basis he was challenged for making denigrating remarks at the expense of the Muslim minority and left-wing politicians which he perceived as politically correct.
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