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St. Maarten Christian Party
The Sint Maarten Christian Party (SMCP) is a political party on Sint Maarten with a Christian democratic orientation. History The party was founded by Wycliffe Smith and J. Edwin Arrindell on 4 November 2015. They published a draft manifesto on 22 March 2016. The party was created during a meeting of church leaders held on November 4th, 2014, which led to the idea of the party being born. The SMCP participated for the first time in the 2016 state elections but failed to win any seats within these elections. In the subsequent elections of 2018, the SCMP managed to win a single seat in the state elections, gaining representation in the Sint Marteen Parliament. Following the 2018 Elections, the SMCP formed a coalition government with the United Democrats, named the Second Marlin-Romeo Cabinet. The Party leader at the time became the Coalition's appointed cabinet Minister of Education, Culture, Youth and Sports. After the resignation of Prime Minister Leona Marlin-Romeo, Party Found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sint Maarten
Sint Maarten () is a Countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands located in the Caribbean region of North America. With a population of 58,477 as of June 2023 on an area of , it encompasses the southern 44% of the divided island of Saint Martin (island), Saint Martin, while the northern 56% of the island constitutes the French overseas collectivity of Collectivity of Saint Martin, Saint Martin. Sint Maarten's Capital city, capital is Philipsburg, Sint Maarten, Philipsburg. Collectively, Sint Maarten and the other List of islands of the Netherlands, Dutch islands in the Caribbean are often called the Dutch Caribbean. Before 10 October 2010, Sint Maarten was known as the Island Territory of Sint Maarten (), and was one of six (from 1986 five) Island territories of the Netherlands Antilles, island territories () that constituted the Netherlands Antilles. Sint Maarten has the status of an EU overseas country; it is not part of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Democracy
Christian democracy is an ideology inspired by Christian social teaching to respond to the challenges of contemporary society and politics. Christian democracy has drawn mainly from Catholic social teaching and neo-scholasticism, as well as the Neo-Calvinist tradition within Christianity; it later gained ground with Lutherans and Pentecostals, among other denominational traditions of Christianity in various parts of the world. During the nineteenth century, its principal concerns were to reconcile Catholicism with democracy, to answer the " social question" surrounding capitalism and the working class, and to resolve the tensions between church and state. In the twentieth century, Christian democrats led postwar Western and Southern Europe in building modern welfare states and constructing the European Union. Furthermore; in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, Christian democracy has gained support in Eastern Europe among former communist states sufferi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wycliffe Smith
Wycliffe Sylvester Smith (born 18 December 1948) is a Sint Maarten politician, former pastor and poet. Smith briefly served as prime minister of Sint Maarten in 2019. From 1983 to 1989 he was the lieutenant governor of Saba. Bibliography *1976 – ''A Voice from W-indward'' (poems) *1982 – ''Winds above the hills:a collection of poems from St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles'' (poems) *1981 – ''Windward Island verse: a survey of poetry in the Dutch Windward Islands'' References See also * List of Sint Maarten leaders of government This is a list of Sint Maarten leaders of government, from 1631 to the present. See also * Saint Martin (island) Saint Martin is an island in Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles in the northeastern Caribbean, approximately east of P ... 1948 births Living people Prime ministers of Sint Maarten Columbia University alumni Lieutenant governors of Saba {{SintMaarten-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coalition Government
A coalition government, or coalition cabinet, is a government by political parties that enter into a power-sharing arrangement of the executive. Coalition governments usually occur when no single party has achieved an absolute majority after an election. A party not having majority is common under proportional representation, but not in nations with majoritarian electoral systems. There are different forms of coalition governments, minority coalitions and surplus majority coalition governments. A surplus majority coalition government controls more than the absolute majority of seats in parliament necessary to have a majority in the government, whereas minority coalition governments do not hold the majority of legislative seats. A coalition government may also be created in a time of national difficulty or crisis (for example, during wartime or economic crisis) to give a government the high degree of perceived political legitimacy or collective identity, it can also play a ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second Marlin-Romeo Cabinet
The second Marlin-Romeo cabinet was the 8th cabinet of Sint Maarten. It was formed by a coalition of the political parties United Democrats (UD) and the St. Maarten Christian Party (SMCP). The cabinet succeeded the first Marlin-Romeo cabinet following the 2018 general election, and was installed by Governor Eugene Holiday Eugene Bernard Holiday (born 14 December 1962) is a Sint Maarten politician and who served as the first governor of Sint Maarten, which became a country () within the Kingdom of the Netherlands on 10 October 2010. He was installed by the Council o ... on 25 June 2018. The cabinet lost its majority on 9 September 2019 when Franklin Meyers, faction leader of the UD, left his party to become an independent Member of Parliament. On 22 September 2019, UD Members of Parliament Luc Mercelina and Chanel Brownbill followed suit, which led to the collapse of the second Marlin-Romeo cabinet. Composition References {{Cabinets of Sint Maarten Marlin-Romeo II ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leona Marlin-Romeo
Leona M. Romeo (born 3 July 1973) is a Sint Maarten politician who served as Prime Minister of Sint Maarten from 2018 to 2019. She previously served as a member of Parliament from 2014 to 2016. __TOC__ Early life Leona Marlin-Romeo was born on 3 July 1973 on Sint Maarten to Marius Romeo and Marilyn Thomas. As a child, Marlin-Romeo attended the Methodist Agogic Center (MAC) in Sint Maarten. She briefly attended St. Maarten Academy before transferring to Oak Hill Academy in Virginia. She graduated from Adelphi University in 1995 with a bachelor's degree in political science and a minor in French. She continued her education at the University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, ) is a public university, public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Established in 1632 by municipal authorities, it is the fourth-oldest academic institution in the Netherlan ... where she graduated with a master's degree in International Relations. In 2005, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Separation Of Church And State
The separation of church and state is a philosophical and Jurisprudence, jurisprudential concept for defining political distance in the relationship between religious organizations and the State (polity), state. Conceptually, the term refers to the creation of a secular state (with or without legally explicit church-state separation) and to disestablishment, the changing of an existing, formal relationship between the church and the state. The concept originated among early Baptists in America. In 1644, Roger Williams, a Baptist minister and founder of the Rhode Island, state of Rhode Island and the First Baptist Church in America, was the first public official to call for "a wall or hedge of separation" between "the wilderness of the world" and "the garden of the church." Although the concept is older, the exact phrase "separation of church and state" is derived from "wall of separation between Church & State," a term coined by Thomas Jefferson in his 1802 letter to members of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abortion Legislation
Abortion laws vary widely among countries and territories, and have changed over time. Such laws range from abortion being freely available on request, to regulation or restrictions of various kinds, to outright prohibition in all circumstances. Many countries and territories that allow abortion have gestational limits for the procedure depending on the reason; with the majority being up to 12 weeks for abortion on request, up to 24 weeks for rape, incest, or socioeconomic reasons, and more for fetal impairment or risk to the woman's health or life. As of 2022, countries that legally allow abortion on request or for socioeconomic reasons comprise about 60% of the world's population. In 2024, France became the first country to explicitly protect abortion rights in its constitution, while Yugoslavia implicitly inscribed abortion rights in its constitution in 1974. Abortion continues to be a controversial subject in many societies on religious, moral, ethical, practical, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingdom Of The Netherlands
The Kingdom of the Netherlands (, ;, , ), commonly known simply as the Netherlands, is a sovereign state consisting of a collection of constituent territories united under the monarch of the Netherlands, who functions as head of state. The realm is not a federation; it is a unitary monarchy with its largest subdivision, the eponymous Netherlands, predominantly located in Northwestern Europe and with several smaller island territories located in the Caribbean. The four subdivisions of the Kingdom— Aruba, Curaçao, the Netherlands, and Sint Maarten—are constituent countries ( in Dutch; singular: ) and participate on a basis of equality as partners in the Kingdom. In practice, however, most of the Kingdom's affairs are administered by the Netherlands—which comprises roughly 98% of the Kingdom's land area and population—on behalf of the entire Kingdom. Consequently, Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten are dependent on the Netherlands for matters like foreign policy and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Sint Maarten General Election
General elections were held in Sint Maarten on 26 September 2016. Electoral system The 15 seats in the Estates were elected by proportional representation. Estates of Sint Maarten In order to participate in the election, new parties and parties without a seat in parliament were required to obtain at least 146 signatures; 1% of the valid votes of the 2014 parliamentary elections. Results References {{Sint Maarten elections Elections in Sint Maarten |
2018 Sint Maarten General Election
Snap general elections were held in Sint Maarten on 26 February 2018 following a no confidence vote in the Second Marlin cabinet. Background In November 2017, a motion of no confidence against Prime Minister William Marlin and some other ministers was accepted in Parliament, due to Marlin's position in the negotiation with the Dutch government about anti fraud measures and aid funds in the aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria. After the motion of no confidence was accepted, Marlin tendered the resignation of his cabinet to governor Eugene Holiday and requested elections to be held. It is the second early election in a row since the Gumbs cabinet fell in 2015. Electoral system The 15 seats in the Estates were elected by proportional representation. Estates of Sint Maa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
