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 ...

is one of the three autonomous countries of the

Kingdom of the Netherlands The Kingdom of the Netherlands (, ;, , ), commonly known simply as the Netherlands, is a sovereign state consisting of a collection of constituent territories united under the monarch of the Netherlands, who functions as head of state. The re ...

(with Aruba and Saint-Martin). It has a constitution ( Dutch: ''staatsregelingen'') which governs its constitutional organization and which has been approved by a country law ( Dutch: ''landverordening'') adopted by a two-thirds majority of the local parliament, in application of Chapter IV of the Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands ( Dutch: ''Statuut voor het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden'') dating from 1954 and reformed in 2010. The Constitution of Curaçao ( Dutch: ''Staatsregeling van Curaçao''; ) was adopted by a 15 to 6 vote majority in the island council of

on 5 September 2010. In the initial vote on the constitution in July, the two-thirds majority required was not reached, after which new elections were held on 27 August. The newly elected island council could then adopt the constitution with an ordinary majority.Island Council Curaçao votes for Constitution, Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep, September 5, 201

The constitution entered into force on 10 October 2010, on the date of the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles.

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* Politics of Curaçao

2010 in law {{Curacao-stub