PHILIPSBURG:--- With St. Maarten being the one that will have to bear the cost of election observers, and given that the country’s free and fair election process was noted by observers during the last election a year-and-a-half ago, Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs said having observers for next month’s snap parliamentary election is not necessary.
She was responding at the time to the uproar in the Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament and to Minister of Home Affairs and Kingdom Relations Raymond Knops about the country’s refusal to have international observers for the snap elections.
“I was informed that
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