Candidate Briefing Held on Tuesday
The Democratic Party of St. Maarten will be holding a Candidate meet and greet this coming Friday, Postulation Day July 11th 2014. During the event the electorate will get the opportunity to meet the DP candidates and will be able to ask one on one questions to those running on the DP slate and their vision for moving St. Maarten forward. Information on the event will be announced through various outlets including on the DP SXM Facebook page. “It is important that voters realize that we are electing a new vision, a vision based on integrity, transparency, openness and inclusive governance for St. Maarten, a governance that ensures that all sectors and stakeholders and the whole population is involved. To ensure that we are all getting it right,” read a Democratic Party release.
The DP also held a candidate briefing on Tuesday evening where candidates and members of team DP were briefed on the upcoming elections. The meeting, held at the DP headquarters on the Pondfill above Soualiga Service Point, again reinforced the pledge that all DP candidates must make to ensure transparency and integrity in the electoral process and that all candidates must agree to; “The members of the Democratic Party who seek to contest the Parliamentary elections of Sint Maarten as members of the Democratic Party require a mandate from the people to govern. Membership and candidacy within the Democratic Party is a mutual relationship of trust and loyalty.”