A status referendum was held on the island of

Curaçao Curaçao, officially the Country of Curaçao, is a constituent island country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located in the southern Caribbean Sea (specifically the Dutch Caribbean region), about north of Venezuela. Curaçao includ ...

on 19 November 1993. The referendum was the result of a discussion about the future of the

Netherlands Antilles The Netherlands Antilles (, ; ), also known as the Dutch Antilles, was a constituent Caribbean country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands consisting of the islands of Saba (island), Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten in the Lesser Antilles, ...

, following the secession of

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in 1986. While most politicians, including the government of the Netherlands Antilles and the island government campaigned in favour of secession to make it form a country of its own within the

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, the option of retaining and restructuring the Netherlands Antilles received the most votes. This resulted in the rise of the

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, which won the 1994 general elections in the Netherlands Antilles.Tom Lansford (2014) ''Political Handbook of the World 2014'', CQ Press, p1032

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