Leen van Dijke

Leendert Cornelis "Leen" van Dijke (born 3 September 1955) is a Dutch retired politician and management consultant. A member of the now-defunct Reformatory Political Federation (RPF), he was its last party leader from 1994 to 2001; he co-founded the Christian Union (CU) as a merger of the RPF and Reformed Political League (GPV). Van Dijke sat in the House of Representatives from 1994 to 2003.

Career Originally a carpenter, Van Dijke was a member of the Provincial Council of Zeeland as a member of the Reformatory Political Federation from 1987 to 1994. In 1993, the relatively obscure Van Dijke was chosen to succeed Meindert Leerling as parliamentary leader following the RPF's disappointing performance during the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 2001, he became the first parliamentary leader of the newly founded Christian Union, and was succeeded by Kars Veling a year later.