Annabel Nanninga

In November 2020, she left the FvD following a series of controversies within the party and founded the JA21 with former FvD candidate Joost Eerdmans. On February 15, 2021, she returned to the Senate from her leave and joined the Van Pareren faction, which was renamed the Nanninga faction and has 7 seats. The faction subsequently became part of JA21.

Nanninga has three children: her first daughter was born when she was 19 years old; her second daughter followed three years later. In 2020 she had a son.

In the 2018 Dutch municipal elections, she was the party leader for Forum for Democracy (FVD) in Amsterdam. FvD received three seats in the municipal council. Nanninga was sworn in as a councilor on March 29, 2018. In March 2019 she also became a member of the Provincial Council of North Holland. Incidentally, she was also elected in the Provincial Council of Utrecht in the same elections. In October 2020 Nanninga went on maternity leave and was temporarily replaced by Hugo Berkhout and later by Robert Baljeu in the Senate.

In 2012, she took an interest in blogging and journalism and began submitting op-eds to GeenStijl, PowNed, and Veronica Magazine among others. In 2014, she co-founded the Dutch online news platform Jalta.nl with Joshua Livestro and was the site's managing editor until 2015. The website hired notable figures such as Frits Bolkestein, Thierry Baudet and Hafid Bouazza to write columns. She was also a columnist for DeJaap magazine.

Nanninga posted a series of tweets on her Twitter page in 2006 which were deemed antisemitic. These tweets were retroactively deleted during 2020–21, however multiple internet archives contain screenshots of the tweets in which she made antisemitic remarks and jokes about the Holocaust. In subsequent interviews, Nanninga remarked that the tweets were intended to be satirical in nature. Nanniga also encountered some controversy over articles she had published in which she criticised the influx of migrants during the European refugee crisis and made jokes regarding migrants and asylum seekers arriving by boat. Nanninga later claimed she was attempting to emulate the writing style of Gerard Reve.

Annabel Nanninga (born 6 November 1977 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch politician and journalist who was the co-founder of the JA21 party. She currently leads the party in the Senate and is a representative of the Provincial Council of North Holland. She has been a member of Amsterdam city council since 2018.