Stanley Mario Betrian (born 1 November 1951) is a

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 ...

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who served as the second

Prime Minister of Curaçao The Prime Minister of Curaçao is the head of government of Curaçao. The post was created after the Netherlands Antilles had been dissolved on 10 October 2010 and Curaçao became a country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Prime Minister ...

, in an interim capacity. He was sworn in on 29 September by

Acting Governor An acting governor is a person who acts in the role of governor. In Commonwealth jurisdictions where the governor is a vice-regal position, the role of "acting governor" may be filled by a lieutenant governor (as in most Australian states) or an ...

Adèle van der Pluijm-Vrede. He led the government until a cabinet was formed, following the elections of 19 October 2012.

Netherlands Antilles

From 1983 to 1992, Betrian was executive vice-president of the

Bank of the Netherlands Antilles A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates a demand deposit while simultaneously making loans. Lending activities can be directly performed by the bank or indirectly through capital markets. Because ...

and from 1992 to 1994 Lieutenant-Governor of Curaçao, when the island was still part 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 , ...

Minister-president

The appointment of Betrian followed a period of political turmoil in Curaçao that started upon the creation of the new status of Curaçao as a semiautonomous "country" within the

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. After

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 ...

submitted the resignation of his cabinet to Governor

Frits Goedgedrag Frits M. de los Santos Goedgedrag (born 1 November 1951 in Aruba) is a Dutch Antillean politician who was the first governor of Curaçao following the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles. During his tenure, he oversaw the dissolution of the Net ...

on August 3, 2012, the parliament was dissolved. However, the parliament remains in function until the elections. After a majority in parliament requested the governor to form an interim cabinet until an elected cabinet takes office, he appointed Dito Mendes as ''formateur''. On his advice, acting governor Van der Pluijm-Vrede (Goedgedrag was abroad for medical treatment) accepted Schotte's resignation, which he had submitted in August, and appointed Betrian as Prime Minister in an interim capacity. Nonetheless, Schotte calls this a

coup d'état A coup d'état (; French for 'stroke of state'), also known as a coup or overthrow, is a seizure and removal of a government and its powers. Typically, it is an illegal seizure of power by a political faction, politician, cult, rebel group, m ...

and refused to leave his post.Crisis op Curaçao na "Staatsgreep"
nos.nl (dutch) With the

election An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has opera ...

, Betrian became prime minister in a demissionary capacity. Following the election, Betrian was succeeded by

Daniel Hodge Daniel Hodge (born ) is a Curaçaoan politician who served as the third Prime Minister of Curaçao. He was sworn in on by Acting Governor , replacing Stanley Betrian, who led an interim government in the last months of 2012. On , Hodge lodged ...

on 31 December 2012.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Betrian, Stanley M. Living people Prime Ministers of Curaçao Curaçao politicians 1951 births