National Party of Suriname
The Nationale Partij Suriname (NPS) is a political party founded on September 29, 1946 in Suriname . It has its party headquarters , Grun Dyari (green garden), in Paramaribo at JA Pengelstraat 77.
Party leader
On December 15, 1946, the first board was elected and the first chairman of the party was lawyer G. van der Schroeff.
One of the party's charismatic politicians was Johan Adolf Pengel, who was first elected to the Staten van Suriname Parliament in 1949 for the NPS . In 1962 he was elected chairman of the NPS.
Suriname gained independence on November 25, 1975, succeeding Pengel as chairman of the NPS, Henck AE Arron .
After the coup
After the military coup on February 25, 1980, parliamentary elections were not held again until 1987 and the NPS returned to the center of political power; In 1991, however, her government was overthrown again.
Arron's successor as chairman of the NPS from 1993 to 2012 was Ronald Venetiaan , who was also elected President of the Republic of Suriname three times from 1991 to 1996 and 2000 to 2010.
opposition
Since the parliamentary elections in 2010, the NPS has been represented in the opposition with four MPs in the National Assembly of Suriname . After Venetiaan lost re-election in 2010 to former dictator Dési Bouterse , who returned to power for the first time since the end of the dictatorship, he retired from chairmanship and the role of opposition leader two years later. On June 17, 2012, Gregory Rusland was elected as the new party leader; in November 2013 Venetiaan became the party's honorary chairman.
In the parliamentary elections on May 25, 2015, the NPS was part of the party alliance V 7 Combinatie . The NPS only won two of the 51 seats in the newly elected parliament.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Parliament's website for the parties represented in the National Assembly, accessed on July 30, 2015