Island Council elections were held in

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 27 August 2010. Early elections were necessary because the island council failed to approve a proposed new

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with a two-thirds majority in the first reading. Before it could be adopted by a simple majority in the second reading, the

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specified that a general election had to be held. Although the elections were held for the island council of Curaçao, its newly elected members automatically became members of the

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when Curaçao became a constituent country within the

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on 10 October 2010.

Results

Although the

Party for the Restructured Antilles The Real Alternative Party ( nl, Echte Alternatieve Partij; pap, Partido Alternativa Real, PAR), formerly the Party for the Restructured Antilles ( nl, Partij voor Geherstructureerde Antillen, pap, Partido Antiá Restrukturá) until 2016, is a p ...

increased its number of seats from 7 to 8, the coalition it led lost its majority.

Gerrit Schotte Gerrit Fransisco Schotte () (born 9 September 1974) is a Curaçaoan politician, and the current leader of the Movementu Futuro Kòrsou (MFK). In the Curaçao general election of 27 August 2010, the MFK became the second-largest party with 5 sea ...

of the Movementu Futuro Korsou (MFK) formed a coalition with Movishon Antia Nobo (MAN) and

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(PS) and thus became Curaçao's first Prime Minister on 10 October 2010.

References

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