List of prime ministers of Suriname explained

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.

List of prime ministers

Political parties
Status
Prime MinisterTerm of officePolitical partyElectionHead(s) of state
PortraitName
Took officeLeft officeTime in office
Surinam (colony of the Dutch Empire)
1Julius Caesar de Miranda
1949 1951PSV1949Juliana
Jacques Drielsma
1951 1951Independent
2Jan Buiskool
1951 1952Independent1951
3Adriaan Alberga
1952 1952Independent
4Archibald Currie
1952 1954NPS
1954 1954
Suriname (constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands)
4Archibald Currie
1954 1955NPSJuliana
5Johan Ferrier
1955 19581955
6Severinus Desiré Emanuels
1958 1963NPS1958
7Johan Adolf Pengel
1963 1969NPS1963
1967
Arthur Johan May
1969 1969Independent
8Jules Sedney
1969 1973PNP1969
9Henck Arron
1973 1975NPS1973
Republic of Suriname
9Henck Arron
1975 1980
NPS1977Johan Ferrier
(NPS)
10Henk Chin A Sen
1980 1982
PNR
Himself
11Henry Neijhorst
1982
[1]
1982
IndependentFred Ramdat Misier
(Independent)
12Errol Alibux
1983 1984
PALU
13Wim Udenhout
1984 1986Independent
14Pretaap Radhakishun
1986 1987VHP
[2]
15Jules Wijdenbosch
1987 1988VFB

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: AROUND THE WORLD; New Civilian Cabinet Installed in Suriname. 1 April 1982. The New York Times. 15 December 2020.
  2. Book: Janssen, Roger . In Search of a Path: An Analysis of the Foreign Policy of Suriname from 1975 to 1991 . 2011. Brill. Leiden. en. 978-90-04-25367-4. 10.1163/j.ctt1w8h0wm. free. 191.