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Amendments bring election ordinance in line with the Constitution
PHILIPSBURG – Rather than come up with a comprehensive package for electoral reform, MP Wycliffe Smith, in his role as caretaker prime minister, already suggested amendments to the Election Ordinance and the More...
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The H-Factor
Leader of the SMCP, Wycliffe Smith, writes in an article about the H-Factor. Already on November 7, 2019, during an ad hoc committee meeting on electoral reform, the former MP Claude Chacho Peterson proposed that More...
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Brison: Wescot-Williams failed St. Maarten on electoral reform
PHILIPBURG — MP Sarah Wescot-Williams has failed St. Maarten in her capacity of Chairlady of the Electoral Reform Committee and is now making disingenuous statements about the subject of electoral reform More...
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Prime Minister Romeo Marlin resumes discussions on Electoral Reform
PHILIPSBURG – On March 22nd, the newly formed workgroup on electoral reform met for the first time led by Prime Minister Leona Romeo Marlin. As outlined in the Governing Program “Building a Sustainable Sint More...
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Wescot-Williams and Richardson put electoral reform back on the agenda
PHILIPSBURG – Electoral Reform, a pet project of more than one politician since the fall of the second Wescot-Williams cabinet is back on the agenda for two reasons. The first one is that MP Wescot-Williams brought More...
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The system we live in
Hmmm, a discussion on Facebook about the election results shows that not everybody is happy. What else is new? Interestingly, the discussion is based on knowledge we don’t have: that five of the seven ministers More...