 He was first elected in 1999, but lost his seat in the 2004 election, in which the DP fared poorly.He returned to the Chamber on 10 October 2006, replacing Niki Bettendorf upon Bettendorf's resignation.Krieps was born in Guildford, Surrey, when his father, fellow politician and resistance leader Émile Krieps, was posted in the United Kingdom in the aftermath the Second World War.