| Country: | Curaçao |
| MAN Party | |
| Native Name: | Partido MAN |
| Native Name Lang: | Dutch |
| Leader: | Hensley Koeiman |
| Leader1 Title: | Founder |
| Leader1 Name: | Don Martina |
| Foundation: | 6 February 1971 |
| Ideology: | Social democracy |
| Position: | Centre-left |
| Colours: | Blue |
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| Website: | http://www.partidoman.org/ |
| Seats1 Title: | Estates of Curaçao |
Partido MAN is a political party in Curaçao founded in 1971,[1] which has two of the 21 seats of the Estates of Curaçao after the Curaçao general election of 2021.[2] In the elections preceding the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles the party gained two seats as well and joined the coalition government.[3]
MAN originally stood for Movementu Antia Nobo (English: New Antilles Movement), but a party congress in 2005 decided to drop that meaning and let MAN be the name of the party in itself.
The minister-president of the Netherlands Antilles Don Martina from 1979 until 1984 and from 1986 to 1988 was MAN-related.[1] At the legislative elections in the Netherlands Antilles, 18 January 2002, the party won 5.2% of the popular vote and no seats,[4] at the Netherlands Antilles general election of 2006, the party returned in the Estates of the Netherlands Antilles with 3 out of 14 seats of the Curaçao constituency in the 22 seat parliament.[5] In the last Netherlands Antilles general election in 2010, the party participated together with NPA and FK obtaining 5 seats.[6]
In the island council (Netherlands Antilles) of 2003 and 2007, the party obtained 2 and 5 seats respectively.[7] [8] The two seats the party obtained in the 2010 island council elections continued as the Estates of Curaçao on 10 October 2010.
| Election | Leader | Seats | +/– | Votes | % | Position | Government | |
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| 1999 | ||||||||
| 2003 | Charles Cooper | 6,274 | 9.34 | |||||
| 2007 | 3 | 13,923 | 18.7 | |||||
| 2010 | Eunice Eisden | 3 | 6.531 | 8.8 | 4th | |||
| 2012 | Charles Cooper | 8,294 | 9.5 | 5th | ||||
| 2016 | Hensley Koeiman | 2 | 12,839 | 16.23 | 1st | |||
| 2017 | 1 | 16,070 | 20.4 | 2nd | ||||
| 2021 | Steven Martina | 3 | 5,456 | 6.43 | 4th |