SMCP SUBMITS A STRONG LIST OF 13 CANDIDATES
PHILIPSBURG — On Postulation Day, Thursday, November 21, 2019, the Sint Maarten Christian Party, SMCP, submitted a list of 13 candidates for the upcoming 2020 elections to be held on Thursday, January 9.
The list of 13 candidates are as follows:
#1 – Smith, Wycliffe Sylvester
#2 – Peterson, Claude Alfred Hans
#3 – Somersall, Michael Orlando
#4 – Gittens, Keith Peter-John
#5 – Gibbs, Beverley Denisse
#6 – Bell, Benjamin Stephen
#7 – Nunes geb. Burleson, Tswana
#8 – Sam geb. Arrindell, Marva Rosalinda
#9 – Kotai, Viren Vinod
#10 – York, Linda Cherline
#11 – Rattan geb. Poulo, Marylouse Guillermina
#12 – Rey, Atwell Terrance
#13 – Bute, Alberto Francisco
Photo caption: SMCP candidates and board members on Postulation Day, Thursday, November 21, 2019. From L to R: Saskia Farquharson, treasurer; Jacqueline G. Godet, president; Linda York (#10); Tswana Nunes (#7); Benjamin Bell (#6), Marva Sam (#8), Claude ‘Chacho’ Peterson (#2); Dylan Smith, vice-president; Viren Kotai (#9); Wycliffe Smith, party leader (#1); co-founder of the SMCP, Apostle James Edwin Arrindell; Marylouse Rattan (#11); and Terrance Rey (#12).
These 13 candidates will be supported by the board of SMCP consisting of seven (7) members, who are: Party Leader, Wycliffe Smith; President, Jacqueline G. Godet; Vice President, Dylan Smith; Secretary, Eveline John-Roberts; Vice Secretary, Bernice Gumbs; Treasurer, Saskia Farquharson; and Vice Treasurer, Aruska Bell.
As the SMCP party already has a seat in the current sitting Parliament of St. Maarten, the party is exempted from having to seek 136 signatures on Endorsement Day on Friday, November 22, 2019.
In the upcoming days and weeks, SMCP will be presenting its candidates directly to the electorate whereby voters will have opportunities to get to know each candidate better and learn the various platforms they will be championing.
Watch the video as the SMCP party board representatives submit the candidates list to the chairman of the Central Voting Bureau (CVB) and hear the party leader, MP, former Minister of EYCS and former Prime Minister, Wycliffe Smith, addressing the CVB in the presence of the candidates and board members of the SMCP party.
Watch the video online here: https://www.facebook.com/SXMGOV/videos/1368658616633223/
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