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Democratic Party (Sint Eustatius)
The Democratic Party (DP, ) is a political party in Sint Eustatius with two seats in the 5-seat island council. In 2011, the party obtained 2 seats in the first elections after Sint Eustatius became part of the Netherlands upon the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles in 2011. However, their Island Council representative Reuben Merkman left the DP in 2014 and became an independent council member. Netherlands Antilles Until the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles, the party competed in island council elections and in 2002 obtained the single Sint Eustatius seat in the Estates of the Netherlands Antilles The Parliament of the Netherlands Antilles (; ), also translated as the Estates of the Netherlands Antilles, was the parliament of the Netherlands Antilles. It comprised 22 members, elected for a four-year term in three multi-seat constituencies ... (which it won in the 2002, 2006 (uncontested) and 2010 elections). When Sint Eustatius became part of the Netherlands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raquel Spanner-Carty
Raquel or Racquel is a variation of the given name Rachel. Notable people with the name include: Raquel * Raquel (wrestler), Brazilian professional wrestler *Raquel Alessi (born 1983), American former actress and model * Raquel Naa Ayorkor Ammah (born 1987), Ghanaian singer, composer and actress *Raquel Atawo (born 1982), American tennis player * Raquel Barros (1919–2014), Chilean folklorist *Raquel Bitton, French singer, actress and playwright * Raquel Bollo (born 1975), Spanish television personality business woman and model *Raquel Cabezón, Spanish football midfielder *Raquel Calderón (born 1991), Chilean actress, singer and lawyer *Raquel Carriedo-Tomás (born 1971), Spanish singer *Raquel Cassidy (born 1968), English actress *Raquel Cepeda, American journalist *Raquel Chalfi, Israeli poet * Raquel Dodge (born 1961), Brazilian politician *Raquel Diaz, Mexican-American professional wrestler, manager, model, and singer *Raquel Fernandes, Brazilian footballer, born 1991 *Raque ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sint Eustatius
Sint Eustatius (, ), also known locally as Statia (), is an island in the Caribbean. It is a special municipality (officially " public body") of the Netherlands. The island lies in the northern Leeward Islands portion of the West Indies, southeast of the Virgin Islands. Sint Eustatius is immediately to the northwest of Saint Kitts, and to the southeast of Saba. The regional capital is Oranjestad. The island has an area of . Travellers to the island by air arrive through F. D. Roosevelt Airport. Formerly part of the Netherlands Antilles, Sint Eustatius became a special municipality of the Netherlands on 10 October 2010. Together with Bonaire and Saba it forms the BES islands. The name of the island, "Sint Eustatius", is the Dutch name for Saint Eustace (also spelled Eustachius or Eustathius), a legendary Christian martyr, known in Spanish as ''San Eustaquio'' and in Portuguese as ''Santo Eustáquio'' or ''Santo Eustácio''. History The earliest inhabitants were CaribsJ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010 Netherlands Antilles General Election
General elections were held in the Netherlands Antilles on 22 January 2010. Voters elected the 22 members of the Estates, or parliament, of the Netherlands Antilles. It has been the country's last general election, as the Netherlands Antilles have ceased to exist as a country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands on 10 October 2010. At the time of the elections, the Netherlands Antilles consisted of the Caribbean islands of Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten. Background The Council of Ministers of the Netherlands Antilles announced on 16 September 2009, that it had chosen 22 January 2010 as the official date for the upcoming general election. Voter registration for the election ended in November 2009. Antillean political parties who wish to contest the election must submit their list of candidates by the first week of December 2009. There was some disagreement among politicians in the Netherlands Antilles as to the exact date of the upcoming election. Som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Netherlands Antilles General Election
General elections were held in the Netherlands Antilles on 27 January 2006. The result was a highly fragmented Estates, with no party winning more than five seats. Results References {{Netherlands Antilles elections Elections in the Netherlands Antilles Netherlands Antilles General election Election and referendum articles with incomplete results ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estates Of The Netherlands Antilles
The Parliament of the Netherlands Antilles (; ), also translated as the Estates of the Netherlands Antilles, was the parliament of the Netherlands Antilles. It comprised 22 members, elected for a four-year term in three multi-seat constituencies and two single-seat constituencies.Amigoe di Curaçao, "Dertig jaar: eerste Staten N.A.", 20 december 1967 On 10 October 2010, the Netherlands Antilles were dissolved, and so was the parliament. History On 20 December 1937, the first parliamentary election took place following the reorganization of the Colonial Council of Curaçao and Dependencies. The first Parliament of the Netherlands Antilles consisted of 15 members, of which 5 were appointed by the Governor of the Netherlands Antilles and 10 were elected through elections held in the territories. In 1949, universal suffrage was introduced and parliament grew from 15 to 21 seats. Beginning in 1950, the Parliament consisted out of 22 seats, elected through proportional representati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Island Council (Netherlands Antilles)
An island council was the governing body of an island territory, an administrative level of the Netherlands Antilles until its dissolution. Island councils existed for: * Aruba (until its secession from the Netherlands Antilles in 1986) * Bonaire * Curaçao *Saba * Sint Eustatius *Sint Maarten The latter three were until 1 April 1983 governed by a single island council: * the Windward Islands ( nl, de Bovenwindse eilanden) Dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles Upon the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles in 2010, the island councils of Sint Maarten and Curaçao have become the Estates of Sint Maarten and the Estates of Curaçao Estate or The Estate may refer to: Law * Estate (law), a term in common law for a person's property, entitlements and obligations * Estates of the realm, a broad social category in the histories of certain countries. ** The Estates, representati ... respectively. The island councils of Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius (the Caribbean Netherlands) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dissolution Of The Netherlands Antilles
The Netherlands Antilles was an autonomous Caribbean country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It was dissolved on 10 October 2010. After dissolution, the "BES islands" of the Dutch Caribbean—Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba—became the Caribbean Netherlands, "special municipalities" of the Netherlands proper—a structure that only exists in the Caribbean. Meanwhile Curaçao and Sint Maarten became constituent countries within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, along the lines of Aruba, which separated from the Netherlands Antilles on 1 January 1986. History Background and Aruban secession movement The idea of the Netherlands Antilles as a country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands never enjoyed the full support of all islands, and political relations between islands were often strained. Geographically, the Leeward Antilles islands of Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire, and the Leeward Islands of Saba, Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten lie almost apart. Culturally, the Leew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 Sint Eustatius General Election
Island council elections were held in the Caribbean Netherlands on 2 March 2011 to elect the members of the island councils of Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius. They were the first island council elections since the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles in 2010. The elections were held on the same day as the provincial elections in the European Netherlands. The election was won by the Bonaire Patriotic Union (4 seats) in Bonaire, the Windward Islands People's Movement (4 seats) in Saba, and the Democratic Party Democratic Party most often refers to: *Democratic Party (United States) Democratic Party and similar terms may also refer to: Active parties Africa *Botswana Democratic Party *Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea *Gabonese Democratic Party *Demo ... (2 seats) in Sint Eustatius. Results Bonaire Saba Sint Eustatius References {{Dutch elections Dutch Island council March 2011 events in North America 2011 in Bonaire Elections in Bonaire Elections in S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Party
A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology, ideological or policy goals. Political parties have become a major part of the politics of almost every country, as modern party organizations developed and spread around the world over the last few centuries. It is extremely rare for a country to have Non-partisan democracy, no political parties. Some countries have Single-party state, only one political party while others have Multi-party system, several. Parties are important in the politics of autocracies as well as democracies, though usually democracies have more political parties than autocracies. Autocracies often have a single party that governs the country, and some political scientists consider competition between two or more parties to be an essential part of democracy. Part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winston Fleming
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Electoral Colleges For The Senate
The electoral colleges for the Senate ( nl, kiescolleges voor de Eerste Kamer; pap, kolegionan elektoral pa Eerste Kamer, label=Papiamentu) are the electoral colleges of the Caribbean Netherlands and Dutch expatriates. Their members together with the members of the States-Provincial in the European Netherlands choose the Senators of the Dutch Senate. The first electoral college elections (then only in the Caribbean Netherlands) were held on 20 March 2019, simultaneously with the island council elections, and the European Netherlands' provincial elections and water board elections. On 27 May 2019, the colleges cast their votes for the Senate election. Seats The number of members of the electoral colleges for the Senate is equal to the number of members of the island council. The number of members varies per island. Nonetheless, it is always an odd number of members. * Bonaire: 9 seats * St. Eustatius: 5 seats * Saba Saba may refer to: Places * Saba (island), an island of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Democratic Appeal
The Christian Democratic Appeal ( nl, Christen-Democratisch Appèl, ; CDA) is a Christian-democratic political party in the Netherlands. It was originally formed in 1977 from a confederation of the Catholic People's Party, the Anti-Revolutionary Party and the Christian Historical Union; it has participated in all but three cabinets since it became a unitary party. Health Minister Hugo de Jonge served as Leader of the Christian Democratic Appeal from July 2020 until his resignation the following December. Finance Minister Wopke Hoekstra was then chosen as ''lijstrekker'' for the 2021 general election, becoming the ''de facto'' party leader. After the 2017 general election, in which the party won 19 seats (third place), the CDA became a junior coalition partner in the Third Rutte cabinet with the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, Democrats 66 and Christian Union. The Fourth Rutte cabinet was formed upon the same coalition. History History before 1977 Since 1880 the size ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
