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The Constitution is based on democratic Western principles and provides for a governor, (appointed by the King of the Netherlands) for a six-year term, as the monarch's representative. An elected prime minister heads the local government and receives legislation from the eight-member Council of Ministers. The Parliament of Aruba has legislative ...
Constitution of Aruba: January 1, 1986: Constitution of the British Virgin Islands: June 15, 2007: ... (1947) Constitution of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria (1971)
No. Portrait Name (Birth–Death) Term of office Party 1 Henny Eman (1948–2025) 1 January 1986 9 February 1989 AVP: 2 Nelson Oduber (born 1947) 9 February 1989
Politics of Aruba, a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic country, whereby the governor in his capacity as the King's representative is the de jure head of government [1] [2] and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government.
Nelson Orlando Oduber (born 7 February 1947) [1] is a retired Aruban politician who served as the 2nd Prime Minister of Aruba. Following his defeat in the 2009 Aruban general election , Oduber retired from politics.
Aruba (/ ə ˈ r uː b ə / ə-ROO-bə, Dutch pronunciation: [aːˈrubaː] or [aːˈrybaː] ⓘ, Papiamento pronunciation:), officially the Country of Aruba (Dutch: Land Aruba; Papiamento: Pais Aruba), is a constituent island country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, in the southern Caribbean Sea 29 kilometres (18 mi) north of the Venezuelan peninsula of Paraguaná and 80 kilometres (50 ...
In 1947, Aruba's government founded a tourist board to explore the possibility of developing a tourism industry. Several years later, cruise ships began to dock in Oranjestad, Aruba's capital city. The island's first luxury hotel was built in 1959, giving the fledgling industry a good start.
The Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands (in Dutch: Statuut voor het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden; in Papiamentu: Statuut di Reino Hulandes) is a legal instrument that sets out the political relationship among the four countries that constitute the Kingdom of the Netherlands: Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten in the Caribbean and the Netherlands (for the most part) in Europe.