New Antilles Movement
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Partido MAN is a political party
in Curaçao
, the Netherlands Antilles
. 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.
At the legislative elections in the Netherlands Antilles
, 18 January 2002, the party won 5.2 % of the popular vote and no seats. At the elections in the Netherlands Antilles
of 27 January 2006, the party returned in parliament with 3 out of 22 seats.
In the elections preceding the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles the party gained 2 out of the 21 seats of the Estates of Curacao and joined the coalition.
Political party
A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...
in Curaçao
Curaçao
Curaçao is an island in the southern Caribbean Sea, off the Venezuelan coast. The Country of Curaçao , which includes the main island plus the small, uninhabited island of Klein Curaçao , is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands...
, the Netherlands Antilles
Netherlands Antilles
The Netherlands Antilles , also referred to informally as the Dutch Antilles, was an autonomous Caribbean country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, consisting of two groups of islands in the Lesser Antilles: Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao , in Leeward Antilles just off the Venezuelan coast; and Sint...
. MAN originally stood for Movementu Antia Nobo (English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
: 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.
At the legislative elections in the Netherlands Antilles
Elections in the Netherlands Antilles
Elections in the Netherlands Antilles gives information on election and election results of the estates of the former Netherlands Antilles.The Netherlands Antilles had a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often had a chance of gaining power alone, and parties had to...
, 18 January 2002, the party won 5.2 % of the popular vote and no seats. At the elections in the Netherlands Antilles
Elections in the Netherlands Antilles
Elections in the Netherlands Antilles gives information on election and election results of the estates of the former Netherlands Antilles.The Netherlands Antilles had a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often had a chance of gaining power alone, and parties had to...
of 27 January 2006, the party returned in parliament with 3 out of 22 seats.
In the elections preceding the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles the party gained 2 out of the 21 seats of the Estates of Curacao and joined the coalition.