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2000 Surinamese General Election
General elections were held in Suriname on 25 May 2000.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p614 The result was a victory for the New Front for Democracy and Development, which won 33 of the 51 seats. Voter turnout was 72%.Nohlen, p615 Results References {{Surinamese elections Suriname Elections in Suriname 2000 in Suriname Election An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has opera ...
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1996 Surinamese General Election
General elections were held in Suriname on 23 May 1996.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p614 The result was a victory for the New Front for Democracy and Development (an alliance of the National Party of Suriname, the Progressive Reform Party, the Party for National Unity and Solidarity and the Surinamese Labour Party), which won 24 of the 51 seats. Voter turnout was 66.7%.Nohlen, p615 Results References {{Surinamese elections Suriname Suriname (; srn, Sranankondre or ), officially the Republic of Suriname ( nl, Republiek Suriname , srn, Ripolik fu Sranan), is a country on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north ... Elections in Suriname 1996 in Suriname ...
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Dieter Nohlen
Dieter Nohlen (born 6 November 1939) is a German academic and political scientist. He currently holds the position of Emeritus Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Heidelberg. An expert on electoral system An electoral system or voting system is a set of rules that determine how elections and referendums are conducted and how their results are determined. Electoral systems are used in politics to elect governments, while non-political elections ma ...s and political development, he has published several books.About the contributors
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Books published by Nohlen include: *''Electoral systems of the world'' (in German, 1978) *''Lexicon of politics'' (seven volumes) *''Elections and Electoral Systems'' (1996) *''Electi ...
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Elections In Suriname
Suriname elects on the national level a head of state – the president – and a legislature. The president is elected for a five-year term by an electoral college based on the parliament. The National Assembly (''Nationale Assemblée'') has 51 members, elected every five years by proportional representation per district. Suriname has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments. Suriname held general elections in 1928, 1930, 1932, 1934, 1936, 1938, 1942, 1946, 1949, 1951, 1955, 1958, 1963, 1967, 1969, 1973, 1977, 1987, 1991, 1996, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, and 2020. See also * Electoral calendar * Electoral system An electoral system or voting system is a set of rules that determine how elections and Referendum, referendums are conducted and how their results are determined. Electoral systems are used in politics to elect governments, while non-pol ...
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Progressive Surinamese People's Party
The Progressive Surinamese People's Party ( nl, Progressieve Surinaamse Volkspartij, PSV) was a political party in Suriname. The party was a member of the Christian Democrat Organization of America. The party was founded in August 1946 by, among others, Father Jozef Weidmann and Coen Ooft. In 1948, party member , on behalf of the PSV, went to the First Round Table Conference in the Netherlands, where he pleaded for universal suffrage for men and women. One of the results of this conference was that the census and capacity selection right for men was replaced by a universal suffrage for men and women. In 1955 three PSV politicians were elected and soon after that two members of the PSV became minister: Willem Smit (Finance) and Lucien Rens (Education and Community Development). Rens was in 1957 succeeded by Julius Johan Jacques Volkerts. After the elections of 1969 the PSV politician Rudi Vonsée became the Minister of Health. At the 1973 elections, the PSV belonged to t ...
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Progressive Workers' And Farmers' Union
The Progressive Workers' and Farmers' Union ( nl, Progressieve Arbeiders- en Landbouwersunie), widely known by its abbreviation PALU, is a leftist Surinamese political party founded on 12 March 1977. History The party has its origins in the pressure group by the same name founded in 1973. This group founded a political party in early 1977 to participate in the Surinamese general election of 1977. After the 1980 Surinamese coup d'état the party tried to steer the revolt into the direction of a workers' revolution. Under the leadership of Iwan Krolis and Errol Alibux, PALU had close contact with the military leadership headed by Dési Bouterse and was the only party allowed to be politically active in Suriname. In 1981 and 1983, PALU was part of the Surinamese government, with Errol Alibux serving as Prime Minister of Suriname. In the 2010 Surinamese general election, PALU was part of the Megacombinatie electoral alliance under the leadership of the National Democratic Party ...
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Pertjajah Luhur
The Pertjajah Luhur is a political party in Suriname. Founded in 1998 by Paul Somohardjo, it represents Javanese Surinamese. At the last legislative elections A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ... (25 May 2010), the party was part of the People's Alliance for Progress that won 13.0% of the popular vote and six out of 51 seats in the National Assembly of Suriname, National Assembly. Out of these six seats, all went to Somoharjdo. Electoral history References

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Democrats Of The 21st Century
Democrats of the 21st Century ( Dutch: ''Democraten van de 21ste eeuw'') was a political party in Suriname from 2000 to 2010. The party originally broke away from the Party for National Unity and Solidarity, and eventually merged into the Pertjajah Luhur. Its leader was Soewarto Moestadja. History The party was founded at the end of the presidency of Jules Wijdenbosch (1996-2000). Due to disagreements between Wijdenbosch and fellow National Democratic Party leader Desi Bouterse, the NDP withdrew its support for Wijdenbosch's government and decided to contest 2000 elections separately. The Party for National Unity and Solidarity, which held five ministries as part of the ruling coalition, decided to follow the NDP. However, three of its ministers (including Soewarto Moestadja) decided to support Wijdenbosch; they broke from the party and founded Democrats of the 21st Century (D21). The new party did not win any seats in the 2000 election. Five years later, D21 joined th ...
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General Liberation And Development Party
The General Liberation and Development Party ( nl, Algemene Bevrijdings- en Ontwikkelingspartij, ABOP) is a political party in Suriname, founded and chaired by ex-rebel leader Ronnie Brunswijk in 1990 after several members of the BEP were expelled. The former Vice President of Suriname, Robert Ameerali, is a member of the ABOP. As a consequence of having originally split from the BEP, ABOP is similarly more popular among the country's Maroon community, especially in interior areas of the country. In 2020, General Liberation and Development Party formed a coalition government with new president Chan Santokhi's Progressive Reform Party. Leader Ronnie Brunswijk Ronnie Brunswijk (; born 7 March 1961) is a Surinamese politician, businessman, footballer, convicted drug trafficker, former rebel leader, and the current Vice President of Suriname. Brunswijk served in the early 1980s as the personal bodyguard ... became new Vice President of Suriname. Electoral results Referen ...
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Democracy And Development Through Unity
Democracy and Development in Unity ( nl, Democratie en Ontwikkeling in Eenheid) is a political party in Suriname. The party identifies as reformist, and was founded on 2 December 1999. The party's by-laws state that its board will be composed of 50% women and it will strive for equal numbers of men and women in all positions, the only party in the country to do so. The party had one seat in the National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repre ... from 2010 to 2020, held by its then-leader Carl Breeveld. In the 2020 Surinamese general election, the party did not get any seats. References External links * Political parties in Suriname {{Suriname-party-stub ...
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Political Wing Of The FAL
The Political Wing of the FAL ( nl, Politieke Vleugel van de FAL) is a centre-left agrarian political party in Suriname. At the last legislative elections, held on 25 May 2005, the party was part of the "A1" electoral alliance that won 6.2% of the popular vote and three out of 51 seats in the National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repre .... As the name implies, the party is the political wing of the FAL, short for ''Federatie van Agrariërs en Landarbeiders'' (Federation of Farmers and Agricultural Workers). Political parties in Suriname Agrarian parties Social democratic parties {{Suriname-party-stub ...
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