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Weekly Report - 21 May 2015 (WR-15-20)

SURINAME: Bouterse has edge in tight elections

Suriname is holding general elections on 25 May with the big question being whether President Desi Bouterse can retain power. The answer to this question could take a couple of months to come. Not due to an inefficient electoral authority but because Suriname’s elections are indirect: a two-thirds majority of 34 is required in the 51-seat national assembly to elect the president. It took two months after the last general elections in 2010 for Bouterse to be declared president as he had to stitch up a broad alliance with some unlikely bedfellows.

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