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 coa ...
is one of the three autonomous countries of the
Kingdom of the Netherlands
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(with
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 P ...
and
Saint-Martin). It has a constitution (
Dutch
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* Dutch language ()
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: ''staatsregelingen'') which governs its constitutional organization and which has been approved by a country law (
Dutch
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: ''landswerordening'') adopted by a two-thirds majority of the local parliament, in application of Chapter IV of the
Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands
The Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands (in Dutch: ''Statuut voor het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden''; in Papiamentu: ''Statuut di Reino Hulandes'') is a legal instrument that sets out the political relationship between the four countries th ...
(
Dutch
Dutch commonly refers to:
* Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands
* Dutch people ()
* Dutch language ()
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* Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States
* Pennsylvania Dutch Country
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: ''Statuut voor het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden'') dating from 1954 and reformed in 2010.
The Constitution of Curaçao (
Dutch
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: ''Staatsregeling van Curaçao'') was adopted by a 15 to 6 vote majority in the island council 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 coa ...
on 5 September 2010. In the initial vote on the constitution in July, the two-thirds majority required was not reached, after which
new elections were held on 27 August. The newly elected island council could then adopt the constitution with an ordinary majority.
[Island Council Curaçao votes for Constitution, Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep, September 5, 201]
The constitution entered into force on 10 October 2010, on the date of the
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—bec ...
.
References
Politics of Curaçao
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 coa ...
2010 in law
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