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Netherlands Antilles hold final elections
by Marvin Hokstam
The Associated Press Translate This Article
30 January 2006
PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten (AP) - Five Caribbean islands on Friday held their last parliamentary elections as members of a unified Netherlands Antilles.
The islands—Curacao, St. Maarten, Bonaire, Saba and St. Eustatius—have set a target date of July 1, 2007 for breaking off to form their own governments.
The new parliament will shepherd the federation to that end.
The party of former Prime Minister Etienne Ys, Antillean Restructuring, appeared to have won five of Curacao's 14 seats, a gain of one from the last elections. The leftist New Antilles Movement won three seats, and three other parties earned two seats each.
Results for the other islands were not expected until Saturday.
The Netherlands Antilles has been a single autonomous member of the Netherlands Kingdom under Dutch military protection.
But under a new structure approved in December, Curacao and St. Maarten will become separate, autonomous members of the kingdom, while Bonaire, Saba and St. Eustatius are due to become Kingdom Islands—a newly created status that has yet to be defined.
Copyright © 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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