Curaçao is one of the three autonomous countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (with Aruba and Saint-Martin). It has a constitution (Dutch: staatsregelingen) which governs its constitutional organization and which has been approved by a country law (Dutch: landverordening) adopted by a two-thirds majority of the local parliament, in application of Chapter IV of the Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Dutch: Statuut voor het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden) dating from 1954 and reformed in 2010.
The Constitution of Curaçao (Dutch: Staatsregeling van Curaçao; Papiamento: Konstitushon di Kòrsou) was adopted by a 15 to 6 vote majority in the island council of Curaçao on 5 September 2010. In the initial vote on the constitution in July, the two-thirds majority required was not reached, after which new elections were held on 27 August. The newly elected island council could then adopt the constitution with an ordinary majority.[1]
The constitution entered into force on 10 October 2010, on the date of the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles.
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