by Ivan Sache, 8 March 2002
Last modified: 2003-05-02 by dov gutterman
Keywords: aruba | avp | arubaanse volkspartij | partido di pueplo arubano | aruban people's party | mep | movimento electoral di pueblo | ruba |
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Other parties:
- Aruban People's Party/Christian Democracy (Arubaanse
Volkspartij/Democracia Cristiana - AVP/DC)
- Aruban Liberal Organization (Organisatie Liberaal Arubaanse /
Organisacion Liberal Arubano / Organisashion pa Liberashou di
Aruba - OLA)
- National Democratic Action (National Democratische Actie - NDA
/ Accion Democratico Nacional - ADN)
- Aruban Patriotic Party (Arubaanse Patriottische Partij - APP /
Partido Patri?tico Arubano - PPA)
- New Patriotic Party (Partido Patri?tico Nobo - PPN)
- Aruban Democratic Party (Democratische Arubaanse Partij - DAP /
Partido Democratico Arubano - PDA)
- Democratic Action 1986 (Accion Democratico 86 - AD 86)
Elections of 1994:
AVP/CD: 10 seats, MEP: 9 seats; OLA: 2 seats.
Elections of 1997:
AVP/CD: 10 seats, MEP: 9 seats; OLA: 2 seats.
Sources: Political Handbook of the World 1997, Der
Fischer Weltalmanach 2001
Jarig Bakker, 5 November 2001
by Ivan Sache, 8 March 2002
Arubaanse Volkspartij/Partido di Pueplo Arubano (Aruban
People's Party, christian-democratic). The party flag is white
anchor on green can be seen at: <www.avparuba.com/lista.htm>,
<www.avparuba.com/Gallary.htm>,
<www.avparuba.com/cover2a.jpg>
and <www.avparuba.com/copy.jpg>.
Another flag (previous ?) with party initils in B/W photo at <www.avparuba.com/his6.jpg>.
Dov Gutterman, 14 Febuary 2002
The party flag is shown on several images on the website. It
is a rather dark green flag with a white anchor, which seems to
be offset to the upper edge of the flag.
Ivan Sache, 8 March 2002
1) 
by Jorge Candeias, 3 May 1999
2) 
by Jaume Olle', 14 October 2001
3) 
by Jorge Candeias, 3 May 1999
One of Aruba parties - MEP - got at least three kindes of
flags. Those flags can be seen in a photo at: <www.setarnet.aw>.
Dov Gutterman, 3 March 1999
I saw 3 different flags, if I'm not mistaken. The accuracy is
below average, but it was the best I could do with the source.
The name of this party is in Papiamento, a local creole language,
based in portuguese with a heavy spanish influence and some dutch
stuff too.
Jorge Candeias, 3 May 1999
The white thing on flag no. 3 is a map of the island.
Mark Sensen, 4 May 1999
People's Electoral Movement (Movemento Electoral di Pueblo -
MEP). Founded in 1971 and a member of the Socialist
International, the MEP was in the forefront of the stuggle for
self-government. It won a plurality of ten Staten seats
in 1989, two of which were lost in 1993, but was able to form a
coalition with the NDA and APP, prior to the withdrawal of both
in April 1994. Note: The language spoken on the Dutch Antilles is
Papiamento, not Spanish.
Jarig Bakker, 5 November 2001
by Jaume Olle', 14 October 2001
Movimiento Electoral del Pueblo- white at first, later changed
background to yellow.
Jaume Olle', 14 October 2001
by Jaume Olle', 14 October 2001
Not found - nearly all parties were formed by MEP-dissidents.
I have been searching the web; there is a page with Aruban
political parties (<www.electionworld.org>),
with several party-links - no RUBA.
Jarig Bakker, 5 November 2001
I just graduated in Contemporary History and specialized in
Aruban history, in which an important role is played by the RUBA
political party in secedeing from Curaçao in 1977. The RUBA
split from the MEP (Movimiento Electoral di Pueblo) of Betico
Croes; RUBA means: "United Reformers for the Wellbeing of
Aruba", however the abbreviation is more telling than the
official name: RUBA means: Aruba and is very often used in Aruban
Papiamento. Other parties use the same strategem. In Bonaire the
pary 'PABOSO' is officially 'Partido Boneiriano Social', but 'Pa
boso' means 'for you'. "MEP" has the same meaning in
Papiamento as in Dutch: a slap, a punch, and the party wanted to
punch the powers-that-be. The small Aruban party CLA owes its
name to the Papiamento word for 'like this!'
At the start of 1977 the MEP, which had gained an absolute
majority in the Island Council (IC) in 1975, got restless. The
second in command, Edgar Joaquin 'Watty' Vos, quarrelled with the
uncontested leader, Netica Croes. With two other rebels Vos
founded the RUBA. The political history of the RUBA is rather
uneventful. In 1977 it didn't gain a seat in the IC, and in 1979
it gained only two seats. It was hindered by the resurgence by
the old AVP (Aruban People's party) in the early 1980's under the
leadership of Henny Eman jr. In 1983 the RUBA joined the AVP, and
Vos played an important part in the party; he was Secretary of
Public Works in three cabinets headed by Eman.
Color: RUBA's was blue, which explains the color of the flag. The
star was picked from the island-flag, which had been adopted by
the IC in 1976 (More info about how the flag came into being can
be gotten from Whitney Smith from the 'Flag Research
Center')."
Erik Haverkort (Translated by Jarig Bakker), 27
September 2002
