Partido MAN is a political party 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 ...

founded in 1971, which has two of the 21 seats of the

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after the Curaçao general election of 2021. In the elections preceding the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles the party gained two seats as well and joined the coalition government.

Name

MAN originally stood for ''Movementu Antia Nobo'' ( English: New Antilles Movement), but a party congress in 2005 decided to drop that meaning and let MAN be the name of the party in itself.

Netherlands Antilles

The minister-president of the Netherlands Antilles Don Martina from 1979 until 1984 and from 1986 to 1988 was MAN-related. At the legislative

elections in the Netherlands Antilles Elections in the Netherlands Antilles were held for two territorial levels of government: the state, and the island territories. The Netherlands Antilles had a multi-party system, with numerous political parties to form coalition governments ...

, 18 January 2002, the party won 5.2% of the popular vote and no seats, at the Netherlands Antilles general election of 2006, the party returned 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 a ...

with 3 out of 14 seats of the Curaçao constituency in the 22 seat parliament. In the last Netherlands Antilles general election in 2010, the party participated together with NPA and FK obtaining 5 seats. In the

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) * Bonair ...

of 2003 and 2007, the party obtained 2 and 5 seats respectively. The two seats the party obtained in the 2010 island council elections continued as the

on 10 October 2010.

Election results

References

External links

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Official website of the Partido MAN
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