Surinam General Elections: controversial leader Bouterse's party lost many seats

[Nicky91]

@arista, have you been following these elections

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/05/suriname-election-preliminary-results-show-opposition-winning-200527174008725.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Surinamese_general_election

the Progressive Reform Party (VHP) of Chan Santokhi have booked their best election result since 1973 ''108,256 votes in total''

however President Dési Bouterse's NDP, meanwhile, lost a substantial number of its seats likely in part due to increasing economic woes in the country and criminal charges brought against him in prior years. ''65,654 votes in total''

the General Liberation and Development Party (ABOP) had its best election result since it's foundation in 1990 going 3 up to 8 seats in total



VHP leader Santokhi is in running for presidency now against the now president Bouterse

ABOP leader Ronnie Brunswijk is announced as coalition's candidate for chairman of the national assembly

[arista]

Yes Covid Lock down
has not helped.


[Bouterse's party has ruled the former Dutch colony for 10 years, and campaigned on its record of increasing social welfare spending and healthcare, as well as several infrastructure projects.]



A Former Nation
you owned Nicky

[Nicky91]

yes

also if Bouterse is no longer a president, he could face some years in jail (as the one thing stopping him from going to jail now is his presidency)

[Nicky91]

https://www.en24news.com/en/2020/08/santokhi-bouterse-left-debt-of-2-5-billion-euros-now.html

Santokhi: Bouterse left us with debt of 3 billion euro's

''Suriname has a total debt of more than 3 billion dollars (converted 2.5 billion euros). Surinam President Chan Santokhi announced this in a press conference on Monday, writes The True Time. Santokhi calls the debt a “financial catastrophe.” He argues that the government of former President Desi Bouterse has done everything to complicate the work''

[UserSince2005]

The people of Suriname are so lucky to border French Guiana.
Express tickets into the EU available.
No control.
Lawless border.
Thank god we are out of that mess waiting to happen.

[Nicky91]

The people of Suriname are so lucky to border French Guiana.
Express tickets into the EU available.
No control.
Lawless border.
Thank god we are out of that mess waiting to happen.

:conf: Lucky

these debts of 2.5 billion dollars are really not something they are happy with right now, so that is what their main focus is on now, fighting the economic crisis

but they are happy about evil bouterse no longer being in power