Suriname 2020 Election

[warandwar]

Quite a left preponderance there, at least on paper?

NDP is electoral vessel for semi-dictator and drug dealer Dési Bouterse so I wouldn't really call them "left-wing".

Desi used to *claim* to be left at some point, certainly was doing so up until 1982, when he started murdering the Left. Maybe the tweet confused him for Kirby.

I am sorry to see they didn't bother putting the ABOP on a left-right spectrum. It would have been funny to see where they slotted in Maroon guerillas. But it's only fair for the only liberated people on earth.

[warandwar]

There’s a new government now without parties from the old regime. Things are looking up for the Surinamese people.

That's what Guyana thought in 2015....Wrong!

[warandwar]

There’s a new government now without parties from the old regime. Things are looking up for the Surinamese people.

That's what Guyana thought in 2015....Wrong!

It’s of course going to be a long struggle, but at least there is a greater chance now.

Nope. IMF has guaranteed that there will not be. Desi Bouterse at least had his drug dealing connections, now that industry is gone....

[warandwar]

As I understand:
yellow = petit marronnage (Maroon communities, semi-free for fenturies)
Purple = NDP - Afro-Suriname plus poorer areas attracted by Bouterse and the street organization's sops
Brown = Indo-Suriname plus areas turned off by Bouterse's action.
I don't know about any outright rigging.

[warandwar]

I would take any news story involving "Haitians" in the Caribbean with a massive grain of salt. "Venezuelans" too, at this point. It's just used as a catch all for "bad people."