Adrian Roos

Adrian Christopher Roos is a South African politician and a Member of Parliament in the National Assembly for the Democratic Alliance party. He is currently the Shadow Deputy Minister of Home Affairs.

Adrian Roos
MP
Shadow Deputy Minister of Home Affairs
Assumed office
February 2020
LeaderJohn Steenhuisen
Preceded byAngel Khanyile
Member of the National Assembly of South Africa
Assumed office
22 May 2019
Personal details
Born
Adrian Christopher Roos
NationalitySouth African
Political partyDemocratic Alliance
ProfessionPolitician
CommitteesPortfolio Committee on Home Affairs

Background

Roos holds LLB and BSc degrees and is an admitted advocate of the North Gauteng High Court.[1] He is a former national chairperson of the Geoinformatics Society of South Africa.[1] During his time as a Democratic Alliance PR councillor in the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, he was a member of the municipal public accounts, finance, economic development, transport and environment committees.[1] Roos was also elected to the regional executive of the DA in Gauteng North.[1]

Parliamentary career

Roos was placed 25th on the DA's Gauteng regional list and 83rd on the party's national list for the 8 May 2019 National Assembly election.[2] At the election, he won a seat in the National Assembly.[3] Roos was sworn in as a Member of Parliament on 22 May, two weeks after the election.[4] On 27 June 2019, he became an alternate member of the Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs.[5] He became a full member of the committee on 7 February 2020 and was appointed Shadow Deputy Minister of Home Affairs.[1]

On 5 December 2020, Roos was reappointed as Shadow Deputy Minister of Home Affairs by John Steenhuisen.[6]

Roos criticised the electoral amendment bill that would allow for individuals to stand for election to parliament and provincial legislatures as independent candidates after it was passed by the National Assembly in October 2022, arguing that the bill discriminates again independent candidates because it consigns them to contesting the provincial list by treating provinces as constituencies, but bars them from standing as candidates on the national proportional representation list.[7]

References
  1. "Adrian Christopher Roos". People's Assembly. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  2. Selfe, James (16 March 2019). "#DALists: One South Africa for All in action". Democratic Alliance. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  3. "SEE: These are the people who will represent you in Parliament, provincial legislatures". News24. 15 May 2019. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  4. "WATCH: Newly-elected MPs sworn in". eNCA. 22 May 2019. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  5. "announcements, tablings and committee reports - APRAV" (PDF). 27 June 2019. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  6. Mazzone, Natasha (5 December 2020). "DA announces new Shadow Cabinet that will bring Real Hope and Real Change". Democratic Alliance. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  7. "National Assembly passes controversial electoral amendment bill amid protests from opposition parties". The Mail & Guardian. 20 October 2022. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
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