WILLEMSTAD - Former coalition partner Partido Inovashon Nashonal (PIN) thinks that Curaçao currently looks incompetent politically. The party is thus responding to the proposal of Prime Minister Eugene Rhuggenaath to ask for help from the Kingdom Council of Ministers.
In this way he wants to get out of the impasse in parliament. Rhuggenaath wants to see if there is enough support in his government to ask the Kingdom Council of Ministers to come up with a solution.
In the past period, it has not been possible to assemble several times because members of Parliament of the opposition parties do not attend the meetings. As a result, several subjects have not been discussed and Emmilou Capriles is still not sworn in as a member of Parliament. Rhuggenaath now thinks that he can still ensure that Capriles can take up her position through a General Measure of the Government of the Netherlands.
According to party leader of the PIN Suzanne Camelia-Römer, it should be possible for the opposition and coalition to negotiate peacefully about which laws can still be discussed in the near future. If this can be discussed in all transparency, the leader PIN sees a possibility that Curaçao itself will provide an outcome from the current impasse.
To “embarrass Curaçao by asking for Dutch interference” less than a month before this cabinet becomes a care taker cabinet is a shame”. The party would rather see the current cabinet resign.
“A few months ago we were in conflict with the Netherlands about the financial direction and we were even proved right by the Council of State,” said Camelia-Römer. "And now we are going to ask Undersecretary Raymond Knops for a solution for something that should not be a problem at all in the first place."
PIN therefore makes an urgent request to the coalition and opposition not to mess up the autonomy of Curaçao, but to try to work it out together. “We have to solve our problems ourselves,” says Camelia-Römer.