Opposition party AVP (Aruban People’s Party) narrowly won the parliamentary elections in Aruba on Saturday morning. The party will go from seven to nine seats in a parliament of 21 seats in total. The ‘Electoral People’s Movement’ MEP of the incumbent Prime Minister Evelyn Wever-Croes drops from nine to eight seats.
For a long time, the MEP seemed likely to win the elections. Ultimately, the Christian Democratic AVP became the largest with a difference of more than three hundred votes, out of a total of almost 55,000 votes. The new party Futuro, which managed to attract many young people, enters parliament with three seats and takes on a key role. Futuro can help both major parties gain a majority. PPA, the party of former minister Otmar Oduber, suspected of corruption, fills the last seat in parliament.
Since Aruba seceded from the Netherlands Antilles in 1986, the MEP or the AVP have always led a government. Over the past seven years, Evelyn Wever-Croes has been leader of two MEP-led governments. Under her leadership, the MEP had to deal with several corruption scandals.
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