PHILIPSBURG--The William Marlin Cabinet has submitted a new national decree to Governor Eugene Holiday to cancel October 29 one to dissolve Parliament and hold snap elections on February 9, 2016.
Governor still has to sign the new decree that puts aside the one of the now former Marcel Gumbs Cabinet. Should he sign the new decree, Parliamentary Elections is on track for 2018, the regular four-year cycle.
Prime Minister William Marlin told the press Wednesday the Cabinet has outlined in its decree, submitted on Tuesday, that the "premise" of the decree was "wrong" and in spite being published in the National Gazette (Landscourant) does not come into until Dec. 15.
Two weeks after the signing of the election cancellation decree, the Cabinet will appoint a "committee of experts" to review the country's constitutional and electoral reforms to try to end government instability.
Since the attainment of country-within-the-Dutch-Kingdom on October 10, 2010, St. Maarten has had five appointed Council of Ministers (Cabinets) as a result of constantly shifting alliances in Parliament.
