Ronald Venetiaan
Ronald Venetiaan ( born June 18, 1936 in Paramaribo, Suriname ) is a scientist, politician and was President of the Republic of Suriname.
Venetiaan is Afro - Surinamese. His family comes from the wood plantation Overtoom the Upper Para Para in the district. After completing his education in Paramaribo ( 1955) he was awarded for his outstanding achievements is one of five Dutch scholarships. He studied mathematics and physics with a focus on mathematics at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands, where he also received his doctorate in 1964. Then he went back to Suriname and worked as a mathematics teacher - and from 1969 as a school director.
Political career
His first steps in the policy making Venetiaan 1965 with some smaller nationalist -oriented parties. As a staunch nationalist, he was close with his ideas, especially the PNR ( Partij van de Republiek Nationalist ) by Eddy Bruma; However, he then joined but the NPS (National Partij Suriname ) to. During the great strike in 1973 against the government Sedney - Lachmon he was Director of AMS (Algemene Middelbare School) and at the same time leaders of the teachers' union.
After the electoral success of the NPK (National Partij Combined Natie ) In 1973, he became Minister of Education and colony development in the government of Prime Minister Henck Arron AE. On February 25, 1980 fell 16 non-commissioned officers in a coup that Arron government, thus ending the parliamentary democracy. Venetiaan had to give up his ministerial office, and became a lecturer at the Technical Faculty of the Anton de Kom University.
On 25 November 1987, with the first free elections by secret ballot by the military dictatorship of the "old" parties came back to the levers of power. Venetiaan was the second time in the Cabinet Arron Minister of Education and people development. With the so-called telephone coup on December 24, 1990 Chairman Ramsewak Shankar and Arron government were brought by military commander Desi Bouterse under the re- case basis.
Venetiaan - I (1991-1996)
After the newly advertised elections for the first time was Venetiaan presidential candidate for the party combination " New Front for Democracy and Development." In its selection on September 7, 1991, he dissolved the interim president used by the military from Johan Kraag as president and remained until September 14, 1996 at the office.
He lost the subsequent election narrowly in the People's Assembly ( 407 votes for and 438 votes for Venetiaan Wijdenbosch ) and Jules Albert Wijdenbosch became president. Venetiaan remained as elected representatives in parliament ( Assemblee Nationale De, DNA). Inter alia caused by the high rate of inflation, there were from all walks of violent protests - and it came to strikes, mass demonstrations and protest meetings against the government's policy Wijdenbosch. The social and political unrest was particularly strong in 1998 and 1999.
Venetiaan - II (2000-2005)
Mid-2000, it came to early elections. The " New Front" - a coalition of NPS (National Partij Suriname), VHP ( the largest party of the Indian population group), Pertjajah Luhur (previously Pendawa Lima: one of the parties of the Javanese population ) and the SPA ( a smaller Social Democratic- union -oriented Party) - won 37 of 51 parliamentary seats. Venetiaan was already on 12 August in Parliament the required two -thirds majority, so that the People's Assembly this time did not have to meet.
Venetiaan - III (2005-2010)
At the regular election for DNA of 25 May 2005, the " New Front" this time was only 23 parliamentary seats. These were divided as follows: 8 NPS, VHP 8, PL 6 and SPA 1 The opposition NDP of Desi Bouterse was the largest party with 15 seats, the People Alliantie Voor Vooruitgang ( VVV ) by Jules Wijdenbosch won 5 seats. The real victor was the so-called A - Combinatie ( a party from inland ) with 5 seats in Parliament; one of which was occupied by Ronnie Brunswijk.
In the following coalition negotiations succeeded the "new front " to draw the A- Combinatie to their side. But since that was not enough for a two-thirds majority in parliament, the National Assembly ( Verenigde Volksvergadering; VVV ) had to meet. On 3 August 2005 Venetiaan was re-elected with 560 votes to his third term as President. His opponent Rabin Parmessar received 315 votes, four votes were invalid.
On August 12, 2005 Ronald Venetiaan was sworn in along with Ramdien Sardjoe, the newly elected Vice - President in the Centre Church of Paramaribo. The term of office according to the constitution five years.
The election of the president by a simple majority by the People's Assembly is always necessary if one of the candidate (s) does not receive a two-thirds majority voting in the DNA. The VVV consists of an electoral college of members of the DNA ( 51 MPs ) and Members of the regional councils. In the last election on August 3, 2005, the electoral college consisted of a total of 879 voters.
Loss of the presidency
In the parliamentary elections on 25 May 2010 Venetiaan met again at the Nieuwe front as a presidential candidate. Here, however, the party lost merger clearly against the mega Combinatie (MC ) with the candidate Desi Bouterse at the top and the NPS of Venetiaan lost four of their previous eight seats. The newly elected parliament he was a member as a member of the Opposition and parliamentary leader of the NPS.
After he had already resigned in 2012 as chairman of the NPS, he put to October 27, 2013 also reflected his position as deputy.
Honorary Chairman
Ronald Venetiaan was appointed on November 22, 2013 as honorary chairman of his party, the National Partij Suriname ( NPS). He has been a member since 1973 and was about twenty years, from 1993 to 2012 chairman of the NPS.