Surinam will have a woman in his history for the first time in its history. Parliament of this South American country elected Jennifer Simons on Sunday, 71-year-old graduated doctor and her former chair. Informed AFP and Reuters.
Surinam’s legislators elected Simons, who was the only candidate for president Six weeks after its National Democratic Party (NDP), she was closely winning the elections to the 51-member parliament held on 25 May, in which she won 18 seats. The center -right progressive reform party (VHP) of current President Chan Santokhi won 17 seats. The smaller sides occupied the remaining 16 seats.
The NDP has previously concluded an agreement with five other parties with which he has 34 seats in Parliament. In July 1987, it was founded by a former Puchist and Autocrat of Dési Bouteters, who became the eighth elected president (2010-2020) and died in December 2024 in Surinam in an unknown place where he hid before arrest, as he was sentenced to 15 critics in 2019.
President Surinam is elected indirectly. After the parliamentary elections, MPs vote on the President of the National Assembly, and the candidate must receive a two -thirds majority of votes. The current 66-year-old President Chan Santokhi, a former police commissioner, faced criticism for insufficient protection of poorer and more vulnerable strata of society. Santokhi congratulated Simons for her election and said he was taking responsibility for his failures.
Surinam is a former Dutch colony lying in the north of South America, which in November commemorates the 50th anniversary of independence. Almost half of over 630,000 of its inhabitants live in the capital of Paramaribo. The majority of the inland ethnically diverse country is filled with forests and savannas.
