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The Covenant Party was a political party advocating governmental and financial reform. It was named after the Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America, Act of Mar. 24, 1976, Pub. L. 94-241, 90 Stat. 263, codified as amended at 48 U.S.C. § 1801 note
Politics of the Northern Mariana Islands takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic system, whereby the Governor is head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system. The Northern Mariana Islands is an unincorporated territory of the United States, and in a political union with it in the form of a commonwealth.
Arnold Indalecio Palacios (born August 22, 1955) is a Northern Marianan politician currently serving as the tenth governor of the Northern Mariana Islands, since 2023.He previously served as the 12th lieutenant governor of the Northern Mariana Islands from 2019 to 2023, and was a member of the Republican Party until 2021.
Roy Christopher Aldan Ada is a Northern Mariana Islander politician. He serves as a Republican member for the 1st district of the Northern Mariana Islands House of Representatives . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Three of the 67 political candidates on the NMI are Democrats. [5] The party organized the 2020 Northern Mariana Islands Democratic caucuses. [6] In the 2020 elections, four incumbent representatives announced that they would run for re-election as Democrats. [7] The party is running 18 candidates, and supporting 3 independent candidates.
He was an independent aligned with the Republican-led majority [7] until joining the Republican Party in July 2021. [8] Sablan was a candidate for lieutenant governor of the Northern Mariana Islands in the 2022 gubernatorial election. [3]
The Northern Mariana Islands House of Representatives is the lower house of the Northern Mariana Islands Commonwealth Legislature. The house has seven districts and five of the seven are Multi-member districts. The governing Democrat-Independent coalition is entering the 2024 election cycle with sixteen of twenty seats, an overwhelming majority ...
Atapang was elected to the Northern Mariana Islands House of Representatives in the 1995 general election. He was the second highest vote-getter in Saipan's Precinct 1. [8] Apatang ran for the Senate in 2001 on behalf of the Covenant Party in the Northern Mariana Islands Senate's 3rd district. [9]