2004 Bonaire status referendum
A status referendum was held on the island of Bonaire on 10 September 2004.[1] A majority voted for integration into the Netherlands.[2]
Background
After the 1994 referendum came out in favour of maintaining and restructuring the Netherlands Antilles, the government of the Netherlands Antilles tried to restructure the Netherlands Antilles and attempted to forge closer ties between the islands, as is exemplified by the adoption of an anthem of the Netherlands Antilles in 2000. A new referendum on Sint Maarten, which was in favour of a separate status for Sint Maarten as a country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, sparked a new series of referendums across the Netherlands Antilles, however.
Results
Choice | Votes | % |
---|---|---|
Direct ties with the Netherlands | 3,182 | 59.45 |
Autonomy within the Kingdom of the Netherlands | 1,290 | 24.11 |
Status quo | 853 | 15.93 |
Independence | 27 | 0.51 |
Invalid/blank votes | 106 | – |
Total | 5,458 | 100 |
Registered voters/turnout | 9,557 | 57.11 |
Source: Direct Democracy |
gollark: You could say "v-scripts"/"t-scripts" or something, if you MUST shorten it.
gollark: Or, well, they can except they lose a minimum of 1KST there *or* I have to add tons of irritating code for fractional billing and interfacing with everything with that and it probably breaks in horrible ways.
gollark: SC and krist itself don't have companies, meaningfully.
gollark: If you had, I don't know, a service which takes krist and sends it back to you a day later for whatever unfathomable purpose, then if someone wants to just feed that 5KST, they can't due to the fee.
gollark: It would make it not very usable as a way to do small transactions.
See also
References
- Kley, Brigitte. "Results Referendum". Bonaire Talk. Retrieved 2007-02-02.
- Bonaire (Netherlands Antilles), 10 September 2004: Status Direct Democracy (in German)
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