A status referendum was held on the island of

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 coas ...

on 8 April 2005. The option of becoming an autonomous area within the

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was approved by 68% of voters.Curaçao (Netherlands Antilles), 8 April 2005: Status
Direct Democracy

Background

After the 1993 referendum failed to show support for a separate status for Curaçao, the government of the Netherlands Antilles tried to restructure the Netherlands Antilles and attempted to forge closer ties between the islands, as is exemplified by the adoption of an

anthem of the Netherlands Antilles An anthem without a title was the untitled anthem of the Netherlands Antilles. It was written in English by Zahira Hiliman from Sint Maarten and translated into the Papiamento language by Lucille Berry-Haseth from Curaçao. The anthem was writt ...

in 2000. A new referendum on Sint Maarten, which was in favour of a separate status for Sint Maarten as a country within the

, sparked a new series of referendums across the Netherlands Antilles, however. Curaçao was the last island to vote.

Results

References

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Background

Results

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