The people of the Netherland Antillies will be holding
parliamentary elections Friday.
The polls for the central or federal government of the five-island grouping, comes as the Dutch Caribbean federation is scheduled to be disbanded on October 10 this year.
Twenty-five political parties are contesting the elections.
It is expected the parliament will sit for seven months before the Netherlands Antilles is dissolved.
However, newspaper publisher Paul de Windt said the polls are important as should the elected parliamentarians be against the disbanding of the federation, then constitutional change in the grouping could be held up.
"If you have a new Antillean government consisting of an Opposition party they will want to renegotiate, they do not agree with anything. I have to clarify that they are not directly against disbanding the Antillies and Curacao becoming an autonomous state but the way it was done,"
"Of course the way it was done is what has been negotiated in the last three years. So basically this could turn back the clock and demand new negotiations which the Dutch government has said it is not willing to do," Mr. Windt said.
The polls for the central or federal government of the five-island grouping, comes as the Dutch Caribbean federation is scheduled to be disbanded on October 10 this year.
Twenty-five political parties are contesting the elections.
It is expected the parliament will sit for seven months before the Netherlands Antilles is dissolved.
However, newspaper publisher Paul de Windt said the polls are important as should the elected parliamentarians be against the disbanding of the federation, then constitutional change in the grouping could be held up.
"If you have a new Antillean government consisting of an Opposition party they will want to renegotiate, they do not agree with anything. I have to clarify that they are not directly against disbanding the Antillies and Curacao becoming an autonomous state but the way it was done,"
"Of course the way it was done is what has been negotiated in the last three years. So basically this could turn back the clock and demand new negotiations which the Dutch government has said it is not willing to do," Mr. Windt said.
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