Post: | Prime Minister |
Body: | Suriname |
Insignia: | Standard of Prime Minister of Suriname.svg |
Insigniacaption: | Standard of the prime minister of Suriname (1975–1988) |
Status: | Head of government |
Member Of: | Cabinet of Suriname |
Seat: | Paramaribo |
Appointer: | Governor of Suriname (1949–1975) President of Suriname (1975–1988) |
Formation: | 3 June 1949 |
First: | Julius Caesar de Miranda |
Last: | Jules Wijdenbosch |
Abolished: | 26 January 1988 |
Succession: | Vice President of Suriname |
Deputy: | Deputy Prime Minister of Suriname |
This article lists the prime ministers of Suriname from 1949 to 1988. In 1988 the position of Prime Minister of Suriname was abolished and replaced by a vice president, who chairs the Council of Ministers ex officio.
Prime Minister | Term of office | Political party | Election | Head(s) of state | ||||
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Portrait | Name | Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||
Surinam (colony of the Dutch Empire) | ||||||||
1 | Julius Caesar de Miranda | 1949 | 1951 | PSV | 1949 | Juliana | ||
– | Jacques Drielsma | 1951 | 1951 | Independent | — | |||
2 | Jan Buiskool | 1951 | 1952 | Independent | 1951 | |||
3 | Adriaan Alberga | 1952 | 1952 | Independent | — | |||
4 | Archibald Currie | 1952 | 1954 | NPS | ||||
1954 | 1954 | |||||||
Suriname (constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands) | ||||||||
4 | Archibald Currie | 1954 | 1955 | NPS | — | Juliana | ||
5 | Johan Ferrier | 1955 | 1958 | 1955 | ||||
6 | Severinus Desiré Emanuels | 1958 | 1963 | NPS | 1958 | |||
7 | Johan Adolf Pengel | 1963 | 1969 | NPS | 1963 1967 | |||
– | Arthur Johan May | 1969 | 1969 | Independent | — | |||
8 | Jules Sedney | 1969 | 1973 | PNP | 1969 | |||
9 | Henck Arron | 1973 | 1975 | NPS | 1973 | |||
Republic of Suriname | ||||||||
9 | Henck Arron | 1975 | 1980 | NPS | 1977 | Johan Ferrier (NPS) | ||
10 | Henk Chin A Sen | 1980 | 1982 | PNR | — | |||
Himself | ||||||||
11 | Henry Neijhorst | 1982 [1] | 1982 | Independent | Fred Ramdat Misier (Independent) | |||
12 | Errol Alibux | 1983 | 1984 | PALU | ||||
13 | Wim Udenhout | 1984 | 1986 | Independent | ||||
14 | Pretaap Radhakishun | 1986 | 1987 | VHP [2] | ||||
15 | Jules Wijdenbosch | 1987 | 1988 | VFB |