Partido MAN


Partido MAN is a political party in Curaçao founded in 1971, which has five of the 21 seats of the Estates of Curaçao after the Curaçao general election of 2017. In the elections preceding the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles the party gained two seats as well and joined the coalition government.

Name

MAN originally stood for Movementu Antia Nobo, but a party congress in 2005 decided to drop that meaning and let MAN be the name of the party in itself.

Netherlands Antilles

The minister-president of the Netherlands Antilles Don Martina from 1979 until 1984 and from 1986 to 1988 was MAN-related. At the legislative elections in the Netherlands Antilles, 18 January 2002, the party won 5.2% of the popular vote and no seats, at the Netherlands Antilles general election of 2006, the party returned in the Estates of the Netherlands Antilles with 3 out of 14 seats of the Curaçao constituency in the 22 seat parliament. In the last Netherlands Antilles general election in 2010, the party participated together with NPA and FK obtaining 5 seats.
In the island council of 2003 and 2007, the party obtained 2 and 5 seats respectively. The two seats the party obtained in the 2010 island council elections continued as the Estates of Curaçao on 10 October 2010.