The Parliament of Curaçao ( pap, Parlamento di Kòrsou, nl, Staten van Curaçao) consist of 21 members, each elected for a four-year term in a general election. Curaçao president of parliament is

Charetti America-Francisca Charetti Maria America-Francisca (born 13 April 1981) is a politician from Curaçao. She has been the president of Parliament of Curaçao since 11 May 2021. Charetti also served as member of the Estates of Curaçao from 2016 to 2017. Charetti was ...

. The first Parliament was installed on 10 October 2010, following 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—becam ...

, and consisted of the members of the island council elected on 27 August 2010. The first Speaker of the Parliament was

Ivar Asjes Ivar Onno Odwin Asjes (born 16 September 1970 in Rotterdam) is a Curaçaoan politician who served as the 4th Prime Minister of Curaçao from 7 June 2013 to 31 August 2015. He resigned after losing a vote of no-confidence. before becoming prime mini ...

(

Pueblo Soberano Popular sovereignty is the principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people, who are the source of all political power. Popular sovereignty, being a principle, does not imply any ...

), while

Amerigo Thodé Amerigo C.M. Thodé (born 27 July 1950) is a Curaçaoan politician of the Movement for the Future of Curaçao (MFK). He served as President of the Estates of Curaçao between November and December 2012 and once again from 24 March 2017 and 11 May ...

( Movementu Futuro Korsou) was the Deputy Speaker. The incumbent Speaker of Parliament is

Speakers

2021 general election

Building

The parliament is housed in the Statengebouw on the Julianaplein in

Punda Willemstad ( , ; ; en, William Town, italic=yes) is the capital city of Curaçao, an island in the southern Caribbean Sea that forms a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It was the capital of the Netherlands Antilles pri ...

. The building has 21 steps representing the 21 seats. Between 2010 and 2014, the parliament met in the building of the Island Council on Ansinghstraat, because the building was being renovated.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Estates Of Curacao

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 ...

Politics of Curaçao 2010 establishments in the Netherlands