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Habtamu Emke de Hoop (born 1998) is an Ethiopian-born Dutch television presenter and politician. He has served as a member of the municipal council of Súdwest-Fryslân since 2018 and hosted the educational children's show Het Klokhuis. De Hoop was elected to the House of Representatives in March 2021 as a member of the Labour Party (PvdA).

Early life and education
He was born in 1998 in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa and was abandoned in a bar when he was a few months old. De Hoop was brought to an orphanage, where he received his first name. His date of birth is unknown, but he celebrates his birthday on 16 April. He was adopted by a Dutch couple when he was about eight months old, and he grew up in the Frisian village Wommels. The couple later adopted another Ethiopian boy. During his childhood, De Hoop played football at a number of clubs including SC Cambuur and ONS Sneek, and he played Frisian handball. He attended the high school RSG Magister Alvinus in Sneek at havo level. In 2016, he participated in the national debating and speech contest Op weg naar het Lagerhuis, where he ended up among the three speech finalists. De Hoop argued during the final for caring more about refugees.

He studied media management at hbo level in Leeuwarden and journalism at the Windesheim University of Applied Sciences in Zwolle, but finished neither study. De Hoop left the latter study after one year because of his job as a presenter of Het Klokhuis. He started studying public administration at the NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences's Thorbecke Academie in Leeuwarden in 2019 after he had left Het Klokhuis.

Career
De Hoop participated in the November 2017 municipal election in his municipality, Súdwest-Fryslân, being placed sixth on the party list of the Labour Party. He won a seat and was sworn in as councilor in January 2018 at age nineteen. His specializations included spatial planning and housing. De Hoop was also hired as a host of the educational children's show Het Klokhuis, which is broadcast on weekdays by Omroep NTR, in December 2018. Filming began in February of the following year and the first episode presented by De Hoop was televised in October. In addition, he was Matthijs van Nieuwkerk's sidekick in an episode of De Wereld Draait Door and he was a jury member of the 2018 edition of Op weg naar het Lagerhuis. De Hoop left Het Klokhuis in the summer of 2019. He was also involved in the youth think tank Coalitie-Y after a call by Prime Minister Mark Rutte in May 2020 for more input from younger people on government policy surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.

He ran for member of parliament in the 2021 general election as the Labour Party's ninth candidate.

Personal life
De Hoop lives in the Frisian village Easterein, which is situated close to Wommels.