WILLEMSTAD - The judge has not yet rendered a verdict on Monday in the case that Member of Parliament for the coalition party MFK, Eduard Braam has filed against the country of Curaçao. The verdict has been postponed, confirms Braam's lawyer and brother, Bertie Braam.
The MP was asked last summer by formateur Gilmar Pisas to become Minister of Justice. Due to a conviction in 2002, he was told in conversation with Governor Lucille George-Wout that he was not eligible to become a minister. Braam decided to withdraw before he could be nominated.
Braam wants to make himself available again as Minister of Justice and filed a lawsuit against the Curaçao government. According to Braam, he was never convicted within the meaning of the National Ordinance on the Integrity of (Candidate) Ministers. He does acknowledge that in the judgment of the Amsterdam Court of Appeal it was declared proven that he had committed a criminal offence. “But the Court has not imposed any punishment or measure on Braam,” said his lawyer.