# Workers' Liberation Front (Curaçao)

The Workers' Liberation Front (Dutch: Arbeiders Bevrijdingsfront, Papiamento: Frente Obrero Liberashon, FOL), officially the 30 May Workers' Liberation Front Party (Dutch: Arbeiders Bevrijdingsfront van 30 mei, Papiamento: Partido Frente Obrero Liberashon 30 Di Mei), is a social-democratic populist political party in Curaçao founded in 1969. The party participated in the general elections for the Curaçao constituency in the Estates of the Netherlands Antilles and the Curaçao Island council until the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles in 2010. After losing its seat in the Estates of Curaçao following the 2012 Curaçao general election, the party is no longer represented in the Curaçao legislature.

## Netherlands Antilles

The party was founded in 1969 and named after the riots/uprising of 30 May. When Wilson Godett and Stanley Brown were elected in the Estates of the Netherlands Antilles, they were still in jail for their connections with the riots; but their upcoming membership in the Estates set them free. During the 2002 and 2006 elections respectively, the party won 5 and 2 of the 14 Curaçao-seats in the 22 seat Estates of the Netherlands Antilles, but during the 2010 election the party failed to obtain any seats.
In 2003, the party obtained eight seats and became the largest party in the 21-seat island council (with 34% of the vote), dropping to 2 seats in 2007. The party delivered two prime-ministers of the Netherlands Antilles: Ben Komproe and Mirna Louisa-Godett. The latter was only appointed as Governor Frits Goedgedrag refused to inaugurate her brother (and son of Wilson Godett) Anthony Godett [nl]. The single seat the party obtained in the Island council election of 2010 (held by Anthony Godett) automatically became a seat in the Estates of Curaçao upon the Dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles in 2010.

## Election results

During the elections of 2012, the party participated in the elections, obtaining 1,790 votes (2.1%). This was not enough for a seat. The party participated in order to qualify for participating in the elections in 2016 and 2017, in which it needed to obtain 870 and 792 votes respectively (1% of the turnout in the previous elections). The party did not manage to do so in 2016 (with 622 votes), but in 2017 it did, in a joint list with Partido Aliansa Nobo (1,124 votes). It did not obtain a seat in the parliament in the 2017 elections.
| Election | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | Leader |
| 1969 | | | 3 / 12 | 3 | Wilson Godett |
| 1973 | | | 3 / 12 | 0 | Wilson Godett |
| 1977 | | | 3 / 12 | 0 | Wilson Godett |
| 1979 | | | 0 / 12 | 3 | Wilson Godett |
| 1982 | | | 0 / 12 | 0 | Wilson Godett |
| 1985 | | | 1 / 14 | 1 | Wilson Godett |
| 1990 | | | 3 / 14 | 2 | Wilson Godett |
| 1994 | | | 0 / 14 | 3 | Wilson Godett |
| 1998 | | | 2 / 14 | 2 | Anthony Godett |
| 2002 | 18,383 | 22.24 | 5 / 14 | 3 | Anthony Godett |
| 2006 | 9,582 | 13.59 | 2 / 14 | 3 | Anthony Godett |
| 2010 | 4,354 | | 0 / 14 | 2 | Anthony Godett |
Curaçao general elections :
| Year | Leader | Votes | % | Seats | +/– seats |
| 1971 | Wilson Godett | ? | ? | 3 / 21 | 3 |
| 1975 | Wilson Godett | ? | ? | 8 / 21 | 5 |
| 1979 | Wilson Godett | ? | ? | 1 / 21 | 7 |
| 1983 | Wilson Godett | 4,503 | 6.51 | 1 / 21 | 0 |
| 1987 | Wilson Godett | 5,386 | 7.56 | 1 / 21 | 0 |
| 1991 | Wilson Godett | 16,603 | 23.54 | 5 / 21 | 4 |
| 1995 | Anthony Godett | 6,841 | 9.72 | 2 / 21 | 3 |
| 1999 | Anthony Godett | 12,631 | 17.90 | 4 / 21 | 2 |
| 2003 | Anthony Godett | 22,745 | 33.86 | 8 / 21 | 4 |
| 2007 | Anthony Godett | 7,648 | 10.27 | 2 / 21 | 6 |
| 2010 | Anthony Godett | 4,813 | 6.47 | 1 / 21 | 1 |
| 2012 | Anthony Godett | 1,790 | 2.06 | 0 / 21 | 1 |
| 2016 | Did not contest | Did not contest | Did not contest | Did not contest | Did not contest |
| 2017 | | 859 | 1.09 | 0 / 21 | 0 |
| 2021 | Did not contest | Did not contest | Did not contest | Did not contest | Did not contest |

## Candidates

| 2007 | 2007 | 2007 | 2007 | 2010 | 2010 | 2010 | 2010 | 2012 | 2012 | 2012 | 2012 |
| Nr. | Name | Sex | Votes | Nr. | Name | Sex | Votes | Nr. | Name | Sex | Votes |
| 1. | Anthony Amadeo Godett | male | 3767 | 1. | Anthony Amadeo Godett | male | 3005 | 1. | Anthony Amadeo Godett | male | 925 |
| 2. | Renfred A. Rojer | | 353 | 2. | Junïel Reinaldo Carolina | male | 362 | 2. | Junïel Reinaldo Carolina | male | 125 |
| 3. | Jacinta Venancia Adelaida Constancia | female | 1296 | 3. | Almier M. Godett | male | 253 | 3. | Irving Charles Jano | male | 131 |
| 4. | Julio G. Constansia | male | 633 | 4. | Julio G. Constansia | male | 120 | 4. | Maricel Irene Sakoetoe | female | 63 |
| 5. | Junïel Reinaldo Carolina | male | 230 | 5. | Jefferdion G.R. Polonius | male | 72 | 5. | Eddy Genaro Desiderio Balentien | male | 17 |
| 6. | J.E. Louisa | | 72 | 6. | Edmiro P. Jansen | male | 50 | 6. | Edmiro Pedro Jansen | male | 15 |
| 7. | Ivan A. Strick | male | 99 | 7. | Maria C.H.C.R. Nita | | 78 | 7. | Leonel Clement Abrahams | male | 59 |
| 8. | E.E. Capella | | 108 | 8. | Jagdish J. Oedjaghir | male | 85 | 8. | Vladimir Omar Garcia | male | 39 |
| 9. | R.A. Sling | | 117 | 9. | Ronald A. Carolina | male | 31 | 9. | Rennox Francis Calmes | male | 41 |
| 10. | Hubert A. Rojer | male | 63 | 10. | Frensel José Marchena | male | 66 | 10. | Jason Oliver Matthew | male | 27 |
| 11. | R.D.A. Douglass | | 47 | 11. | Ramsey Leonardo Betorina | male | 35 | 11. | Edison Johannes Antonius E. Maduro | male | 22 |
| 12. | R.J. Ocalia | | 48 | 12. | Rennox Francis Calmes | male | 61 | 12. | Frensel José Marchena | male | 15 |
| 13. | Mayerdith Anicleta Bouwland-Luciano | female | 44 | 13. | Emanuel, Humfried A. | male | 21 | 13. | Mayerdith Anicleta Bouwland-Luciano | female | 27 |
| 14. | Maricel Irene Sakoetoe | female | 70 | 14. | Leonel Clement Abrahams | male | 80 | 14. | Verlon Jason Bernardo Donker | male | 39 |
| 15. | H.M. Römer-van Rossum | female | 32 | 15. | Samuel E.F.R. Rose | male | 41 | 15. | Hensley Gordiano Martina | male | 27 |
| 16. | E.G. Kowsoleea | | 37 | 16. | Ivan A. Strick | male | 34 | 16. | Richenel S.M. Meulens | male | 14 |
| 17. | M.N.J. Rojer | | 45 | 17. | Rignald J. Ocalia | | 49 | 17. | Ramsey Leonardo Betorina | male | 27 |
| 18. | Almier M. Godett | male | 153 | 18. | Dominique L.M.F. Adriaens | | 16 | 18. | Kenneth Eusebio Filesia | male | 26 |
| 19. | M.L.B. Martes | | 9 | 19. | Jerrel R. Constancia | male | 26 | 19. | Carolaine Birginia Ilario | female | 17 |
| 20. | E.E. Ignecia | | 33 | 20. | Hubert A. Rojer | male | 25 | 20. | Eliseo Galverio Balyn | male | 30 |
| 21. | L.T. Girigori | | 45 | 21. | Harryson F. Martijn | male | 31 | 21. | Ernesto Antonio Bernardina | male | 11 |
| 22. | A.J. Koeiman | | 36 | 22. | Edison Johannes Antonius E. Maduro | male | 34 | 22. | Richard Eldemiro Josefa | male | 2 |
| 23. | V.E. Krips | | 64 | 23. | Humphrey F.S.Kwidama | male | 27 | 23. | Robert Eduard A. Rosales | male | 10 |
| 24. | Leonel Clement Abrahams | male | 21 | 24. | Lery A.L. Regales | | 16 | 24. | Herbert Nicolás de Tolentino Balentina | male | 13 |
| 25. | R.R.P. Balentien | | 18 | 25. | Richenel S.M. Meulens | male | 20 | 25. | Gilbert Francisco Felicia | male | 3 |
| 26. | Maurice Hubert Pierre Philippe Adriaens | male | 51 | 26. | Sidney G. Capella | | 19 | 26. | Luïgi Kronstadt | male | 13 |
| 27. | Edison Johannes Antonius E. Maduro | male | 67 | 27. | Verlon Jason Bernardo Donker | male | 56 | 27. | Michael Constantino Girigorie | male | 7 |
| 28. | E.M. la Croes | | 8 | 28. | Gislaine S. Rogers | female | 25 | 28. | Millicent Marlene Melania Gracia | female | 4 |
| 29. | J.A. Clemencia | | 82 | 29. | Mirna Altecracia Louisa-Godett | female | 75 | 29. | Mirna Altecracia Louisa-Godett | female | 41 |
| Total | Total | Total | 7,648 | Total | Total | Total | 4,813 | Total | Total | Total | 1,790 |