Democratic Party | |
Abbreviation: | DP |
Leader: | Raquel Spanner-Carty |
President: | Winston Fleming |
Leader1 Title: | Leader in the Island Council |
Leader1 Name: | Raquel Spanner-Carty[1] |
Foundation: | [2] |
Ideology: | Christian democracy |
Position: | Centre |
Affiliation1: | Christian Democratic Appeal (2019)[3] Democrats 66 (2023) |
Colours: | Red |
Seats1 Title: | Island Council |
Seats2 Title: | Electoral College |
Country: | Sint Eustatius |
Country Dab1: | Politics of the Netherlands |
The Democratic Party (DP,) is a political party in Sint Eustatius with two seats in the 5-seat island council. In 2011, the party obtained 2 seats in the first elections after Sint Eustatius became part of the Netherlands upon the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles in 2011.[4] However, their Island Council representative Reuben Merkman left the DP in 2014 and became an independent council member.[5] [6]
Until the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles, the party competed in island council elections and in 2002 obtained the single Sint Eustatius seat in the Estates of the Netherlands Antilles (which it won in the 2002, 2006 (uncontested) and 2010 elections).
When Sint Eustatius became part of the Netherlands in 2010, the 2007 island council (where the party obtained four of the five seats) stayed until the elections under Dutch law in 2011.