Maria Liberia-Peters

Maria Philomena Liberia Peters ( born May 20, 1941 in Willemstad, Curaçao) is a politician of the Netherlands Antilles.

Biography

At the beginning of the 1970s, she organized parent groups for political and social action and joined soon after the National People's Party (National Volkspartij ) at. For this she was elected in 1975 as Member of the Island Council of Curaçao. This body, it posted 1975-1980 in the Executive Council, which met periodically with representatives of the Dutch Queen Juliana.

1982 Liberia - Peters was selected as the candidate of the NVP for Curaçao to the Members of the Parliament of the Netherlands Antilles ( Staten van de Nederlandse Antilles) and was from December 1982 to July 1983 Minister of Economic Affairs in an educated Dominico F. Martina coalition government, which broke up in June 1984.

On September 18, 1984, she was the successor of Martina himself Prime Minister. Your first tenure as prime minister lasted until 1 January 1986. Subsequently, she was leader of the opposition in parliament.

As the successor of Martina it was then on 17 May 1988 Prime Minister again. As such, it formed until the election defeat of her party, on 25 September 1993 the government. Subsequently, she was again opposition leader in the Staten van de Nederlandse Antilles. In 1994, she resigned as chairman of the National People's Party and retired after waiving their parliamentary mandate from political life back.