Amma Asante

Amma Asentewaa Asante (born 14 May 1972) is a Dutch politician. She was a member of the municipal council of Amsterdam from 1998 to 2006 and a member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands for the Labour Party from 2016 to 2017. She became chair of the in 2022.

Early life Amma Asentewaa Asante was born on 14 May 1972 in Kumasi in Ghana. Her father was initially an illegal immigrant in the Netherlands, but he became a legal resident by a general pardon in 1975. For family reunification, Asante and her mother moved to the Netherlands in 1978.

Asante studied political science at the University of Amsterdam.

Politics Asante was a member of the Labour Party (PvdA). She was number 36 on the candidate list of the Labour Party for the 2014 European Parliament election. She received 574 preferential votes, but was not elected.

Asante became a member of the House of Representatives on 7 September 2016, when she replaced Tanja Jadnanansing. Here she is the party spokesperson for higher education. She lived in Badhoevedorp as of 2017.

Asante is a Protestant Christian and attends the Triumphant Faith Chapel in Badhoevedorp, where her husband is a pastor. In 2016, when she was asked why she was not member of a confessional political party, Asante said: "Christianity and social democracy are very similar. I feel great in the Labour Party, I feel at home there. My identity is not only established by my religion."