A status referendum was held on the island of
Curaçao
Curaçao ( ; ; pap, Kòrsou, ), officially the Country of Curaçao ( nl, Land Curaçao; pap, Pais Kòrsou), is a Lesser Antilles island country in the southern Caribbean Sea and the Dutch Caribbean region, about north of the Venezuela coast ...
on 19 November 1993. The referendum was the result of a discussion about the future of the
Netherlands Antilles
nl, In vrijheid verenigd"Unified by freedom"
, national_anthem =
, common_languages = Dutch English Papiamento
, demonym = Netherlands Antillean
, capital = Willemstad
, year_start = 1954
, year_end = 2010
, date_start = 15 December
, ...
, following the secession of
Aruba
Aruba ( , , ), officially the Country of Aruba ( nl, Land Aruba; pap, Pais Aruba) is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands physically located in the mid-south of the Caribbean Sea, about north of the Venezuela peninsula of ...
in 1986. While most politicians, including the government of the Netherlands Antilles and the island government campaigned in favour of secession to make it form a country of its own within the
Kingdom of the Netherlands, the option of retaining and restructuring the Netherlands Antilles received the most votes. This resulted in the rise of the
Party for the Restructured Antilles, which won the
1994 general elections in the Netherlands Antilles.
[Tom Lansford (2014) ''Political Handbook of the World 2014'', CQ Press, p1032]
Result
See also
*
Dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles
References
Referendums in Curaçao
Referendums in the Netherlands Antilles
Curacao
Curacao
Independence referendums
Curacao
Multiple-choice referendums
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