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First meeting of the new parliament which must elect the president – Suriname: first meeting new parliament new
The Parliament of Suriname met on Sunday to elect the new president.
Jennifer Simons. Moreover, leader of the Opposition of Suriname, and Ashin Adhin, former vice-president and new president of the National Assembly, after their swearing in Paramaribo, June 29, 2025.
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The Parliament of Suriname met for the first time on Sunday since the legislative elections on May 25. However, with the first mission to elect the new president of this small Dutch -speaking country in northern South America.
The new president must be elected before July 16. Similarly, date of the end of the mandate of the current head of state Chan Santokhi. Opponent Jennifer Geerlings-Simons. 71, whose NDP (National Democratic National Party) party has obtained 18 of the 51 seats in Parliament, should become the first woman president of the country.
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons managed to establish an alliance with five parties to reach the majority of two thirds (34 of the 51 seats) necessary to ensure the presidency. a five-year term.
The former vice-president elected president of the National Assembly
During this first session. the former vice-president (2015-2020) of Suriname Ashin Adhin, 45, a member of the NDP, was elected president of the National Assembly, with the 34 votes of the Alliance knotted by Jennifer Geerlings-Simons.
Gregory Rusland. of the National Suriname Party (NPS) which has obtained 6 seats, is looming as the new vice-president of the country while the formation of the current vice-president Ronnie Brunswijk, the General Liberation and Development Party (ABOP), which also won six seats, is expected to obtain important portfolios in the first government.
The Progressive Party of the Reformation (VHP) of President Chan Santokhi. obtained 17 seats and could hope for the deputies of the Alliance formed by Jennifer Geerlings-Simons to try to maintain themselves.
“All the support necessary for the transition process”
However. Chan Santokhi who spoke with Jennifer Geerlings-Simons in the evening on Sunday after the parliamentary meeting said that “her cabinet would provide all the necessary support for the transition process after the election of the president and the vice-president”.
If only one of the deputies who are part of the coalition of Jennifer Geerlings-Simons is lacking. then it would only have 33 votes, less than the majority of two thirds.
According to the constitution of the souname. if none of the candidates exceeds this threshold after two votes, suriname: first meeting new parliament new an exceptional procedure is triggered: bringing the 906 local advisers together as well as the 51 deputies in a sports enclosure of the capital, so that they proceed to a vote by a simple majority of these.
In the first week of July, the parties should formally announce their candidates for the country’s presidency.
The NDP is the former party of President Dés Bouterse. who directed the country with an iron fist after a coup in 1980, then democratically between 2010 and 2020. He died underground in December 2024, a year after being sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder of opponents in 1982.
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