The Workers' Liberation Front ( nl, Arbeiders Bevrijdingsfront, pap, Frente Obrero Liberashon, FOL), officially the 30th of May Workers' Liberation Front Party ( nl, Arbeiders Bevrijdingsfront van 30 mei, pap, Partido Frente Obrero Liberashon 30 Di Mei), is a

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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 1969. The party participated in the general elections for the Curaçao constituency 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 ...

and the Curaçao Island council until the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles in 2010. After losing its seat in the

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following the

2012 Curaçao general election General elections were held in Curaçao on 19 October 2012. Early elections for the Curaçao island council were necessary as the Cabinet- Schotte lost its majority in the Estates of Curaçao. The elections were the first of the Curaçao after obt ...

, the party is not represented anymore in the Curaçao legislature.

Netherlands Antilles

The party was founded in 1969 and named after the riots/uprising of 30 May. When Wilson Godett and Stanley Brown were elected in the Estates of the Netherlands Antilles, they were still in jail for their connections with the riots; but their upcoming membership in the Estates set them free. During the 2002 and

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elections respectively, the party won 5 and 2 of the 14 Curaçao-seats in the 22 seat

, but during the 2010 election the party failed to obtain any seats. In 2003, the party obtained eight seats and became the largest party in the 21-seat island council (with 34% of the vote), dropping to 2 seats in 2007. The party delivered two prime-ministers of the Netherlands Antilles: Ben Komproe and

Mirna Louisa-Godett Mirna Louisa-Godett (born 29 January 1954) is a Curaçaoan politician who served as the 25th Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles from 11 August 2003 until 3 June 2004. Louisa-Godett became prime minister, following fraud allegations were m ...

. The latter was only appointed as Governor

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refused to inaugurate her brother (and son of Wilson Godett) . The single seat the party obtained in the Island council election of 2010 (held by Anthony Godett) automatically became a seat in the

upon 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—became th ...

in 2010.

Election results

During the elections of 2012, the party participated in the elections, obtaining 1,790 votes (2.1%). This was not enough for a seat. The party participated in order to qualify for participating in the elections in

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and

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, in which it needed to obtain 870 and 792 votes respectively (1% of the turnout in the previous elections). The party did not manage to do so in 2016 (with 622 votes), but in 2017 it did, in a joint list with Partido Aliansa Nobo (1,124 votes). It did not obtain a seat in the parliament in the 2017 elections.

Candidates

References

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