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 Dutch Media Authority in 2022.
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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. Her father was a factory worker and her mother a chambermaid.
Asante studied political science at the University of Amsterdam.
Politics
Asante was a member of the Labour Party (PvdA).
She was member of the municipal council of Amsterdam from May 1998 until March 2006.
Asante was number 50 on the candidate list of the Labour Party for the 2012 Dutch general election. She received 4,549 preferential votes, but was initially not elected. 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.