(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) -- CARICOM’s Electoral Observer Mission to Curacao’s General Election on Friday has arranged a full day of intensive coverage.
“On Election Day, the Team intends to focus on the opening of the poll procedures, the unfolding of the polling process, and the closing of the polls and vote count in the polling stations where the opening of the polls was observed,” Chief of Mission, Dr. Steve Surujbally said in an arrival statement. He said a significant percentage of the polling stations will be visited and monitored.
Friday’s elections were called following the collapse on February 12 of the Government of Prime Minister Hensley Koeiman after just over seven weeks in office. On the invitation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, CARICOM mounted a small Observer Mission to monitor the elections, which, in addition to Dr. Surujbally, include experts in electoral management from Barbados and Jamaica.
Since its arrival in Curacao on April 25, the CARICOM Observer Mission, in association with the three-person Observer Team from the Organization of American States (OAS) has held pre-election day meetings with key individuals and institutions, including the Supreme Electoral Council, the Prime Minister and Ministers of Government, the Governor, Civil Society stakeholders, and leaders and representatives of political parties.
This is the first time CARICOM has mounted an Electoral Observer Mission to a non-Member or Associated Member State.
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