Bonaire Democratic Party | |
Native Name: | Partido Demokrátiko Boneriano |
Leader: | Clark Abraham |
President: | Peter Silberie[1] |
Secretary: | Cardine Cicilia |
Leader1 Title: | Leader in the Island Council |
Leader1 Name: | Clark Abraham |
Ideology: | Social democracy Progressivism Autonomism |
Position: | Centre-left |
Colors: | Red |
Seats1 Title: | Island Council |
Website: | https://www.votademokrat.org |
Country: | Bonaire |
Parties Dab1: | Category:Political parties in Bonaire |
The Bonaire Democratic Party (Papiamento: Partido Demokrátiko Boneriano|label=[[Papiamento|Papiamentu]], PDB; Dutch; Flemish: Democratische Partij Bonaire), also known as Demokrat, is a political party in Bonaire and formerly the Netherlands Antilles.
The party was founded in 1954 by Julio Antonio Abraham. It is a progressive social-democratic party that advocates for more autonomy for the island of Bonaire.[2]
In the 2002 Netherlands Antilles general election, the party won 2.6% of the popular vote and one out of 22 seats in the Estates. In the 2006 general election, the party kept one seat, winning 44.5% of the vote in Bonaire. In the 2015 island council election, the party won three out of nine seats and formed a coalition with the Bonaire Patriotic Union (UPB).[3]
In the 2019 election, the party won three seats in the Island Council.[4]