People / group
National Party of Suriname
The National Party of Suriname (NPS) is a political party founded in 1946 that long represented mainly the Afro-Surinamese Creole population. Under Johan Adolf Pengel and Henck Arron it led governments in the 1960s and 1970s and took Suriname to independence in 1975. After the military period it led the governments of Ronald Venetiaan in the 1990s and 2000s.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). National Party of Suriname. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/national-party-of-suriname
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