Partido MAN

MAN party
Leader Hensley Koeiman
Founder Don Martina
Founded 6 February 1971[1]
International affiliation Socialist International
Colours Blue
Second Estates of Curaçao (2012-)
2 / 21
First Estates of Curaçao (2010-2012)
2 / 21
Website
Partidoman.org
Politics of Curaçao
Political parties
Elections

Partido MAN is a political party in Curaçao founded in 1971,[1] which has two of the 21 seats of the Estates of Curaçao after the Curaçao general election of 2012.[2] In the elections preceding the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles the party gained two seats as well and joined the coalition government.[3] The party is a member of the Socialist International.[4]

Name

MAN originally stood for Movementu Antia Nobo (English: New Antilles Movement), but a party congress in 2005 decided to drop that meaning and let MAN be the name of the party in itself.

Netherlands Antilles

The minister-president of the Netherlands Antilles Don Martina from 1979 until 1984 and from 1986 to 1988 was MAN-related.[1] At the legislative elections in the Netherlands Antilles, 18 January 2002, the party won 5.2% of the popular vote and no seats,[5] at the Netherlands Antilles general election of 2006, the party returned in the Estates of the Netherlands Antilles with 3 out of 14 seats of the Curaçao constituency in the 22 seat parliament.[6] In the last Netherlands Antilles general election in 2010, the party participated together with NPA and FK obtaining 5 seats.[7]

In the island council (Netherlands Antilles) of 2003 and 2007, the party obtained 2 and 5 seats respectively.[8][9] The two seats the party obtained in the 2010 island council elections continued as the Estates of Curaçao on 10 October 2010.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Leoni Leidel-Schenk (12 October 2012). "Partijen aan het woord:MAN" (in Dutch). Retrieved 13 October 2012.
  2. ↑ "Pueblo Soberano Biggest Party After Elections 2012". Curaçao Chronicle. 19 October 2012. Retrieved 2 November 2012.
  3. ↑ "Eilandsraadverkiezingen 27 augustus 2010, definitieve uitslag". Burgerlijke Stand, Bevolking en Verkiezingen; Government of the Netherlands Antilles. Retrieved 22 September 2012.
  4. ↑ http://socialistinternational.org/viewArticle.cfm?ArticlePageID=931
  5. ↑ "Totaaluitslag 2002". Main Electoral Office, Curaçao (Conseho Supremo Elektoral) (in Dutch). Retrieved 3 October 2012.
  6. ↑ "Totaaluitslag 2006". Main Electoral Office, Curaçao (Conseho Supremo Elektoral) (in Dutch). Retrieved 3 October 2012.
  7. ↑ "Totaaluitslag 2010". Main Electoral Office, Curaçao (Conseho Supremo Elektoral) (in Dutch). Retrieved 3 October 2012.
  8. ↑ "Verkiezingsuitslag 2003". Main Electoral Office, Curaçao (Conseho Supremo Elektoral) (in Dutch). Retrieved 3 October 2012.
  9. ↑ "Eilandsraadverkiezingen, 2007". Main Electoral Office, Curaçao (Conseho Supremo Elektoral) (in Dutch). Retrieved 3 October 2012.

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