The Real Alternative Party (; , PAR), formerly the Party for the Restructured Antilles (, ) until 2016, is a

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular area's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology, ...

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. With two seats, the party is the third largest party in the

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, following the 2025 elections. With eight seats, PAR was the largest party in the first

, established in 2010 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 ...

Netherlands Antilles

The party was formed in the wake of constitutional referendums held on the islands in the Netherlands Antilles in 1993, when a majority had voted against the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles. At the

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elections in the Netherlands Antilles Elections in the Netherlands Antilles were held for two territorial levels of government: the state, and the island territories. The Netherlands Antilles had a multi-party system, with numerous political parties to form coalition governments ...

, 18 January 2002, the party won 20.6% of the popular vote and 4 of the 14 seats in the Curaçao constituency in the 22-seat

. Its leader Etiënne Ys became prime minister of the Netherlands Antilles. When the party won five and six seats respectively in the Netherlands Antilles general election in

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and

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its leader

Emily de Jongh-Elhage Emily Saïdy de Jongh-Elhage (born 7 December 1946) is a former Curaçao, Curaçaoan politician who served as the 27th Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles, prime minister of the Netherlands Antilles from 2006 until its dissolution of the N ...

became the last

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. In the island council of the island territory of Curaçao the party won five and seven seats respectively. In the last island council the party obtained 8 of the 21 seats. The island council continued as

upon the

in October 2010.

Curaçao

On the formation of the second Whiteman cabinet in November 2015 the PAR joined the government for the first time in five years. PAR remained part of the government until December 2016.

Election results

References

External links

Official web site
{{Netherlands Antilles political parties Political parties in Curaçao Political parties established in 1993 1993 establishments in the Netherlands Antilles