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Santokhi with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in January 2022 Santokhi with European Commissioners Frans Timmermans in July 2023. On 26 May 2020, the preliminary results of the 2020 Surinamese general election showed that the VHP was the largest party, and that Chan Santokhi was the most likely candidate to become the ninth President of ...
This was made public by president Chan Santokhi in his annual speech at the National Assembly on 1 October 2024. [1] After his resignation in mid-October 2024 as minister of Internal Affairs, Bronto Somohardjo was succeeded one and a half months later by Delano Landvreugd as minister and Maurits Hassankhan as deputy minister. Hassankhan will ...
The current president is Chan Santokhi, a former chief of police. He is affiliated with the Progressive Reform Party (VHP). Santokhi was elected on 13 July 2020 as president by acclamation in an uncontested election , [ 3 ] and inaugurated on 16 July on the Onafhankelijkheidsplein in Paramaribo in a ceremony without the public presence due to ...
Chan Santokhi became the new President of Suriname. [ 1 ] The party has been part of seven government coalitions, in the periods of: 1958–1963 (five years), 1963–1967 (four years), 1969–1973 (four years), 1987–1991 (four years), 1991–1996 (five years), 2000–2005 (five years) and 2005–2010 (five years); a total of 32 years.
The second Bouterse cabinet was inaugurated in 2015 amid a recession that would peak the following year. [9] The country's debt would end up nearly doubling between 2015 and 2019, [10] partially because of economic woes as well as increased government spending and hiring of new government employees, which then made up 53% of the country's workforce (with an average wage of under US$350 per ...
The Santokhi cabinet has governed Suriname since 16 July 2020. It was formed by President Chan Santokhi after the 2020 Surinamese general election. [1] In February 2023 Gregory Rusland and the National Party of Suriname left the cabinet. [2]
This article lists political parties in Suriname. Suriname has a multi-party system with numerous political parties , in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments .
Chan Santokhi: 37.27 18 AC: Ronnie Brunswijk: 10.63 5 −2 DOE: Carl Breeveld 4.30 1 0 PALU: ... Political parties; Foreign relations. Ministry of Foreign Affairs