Aruba has a multi-party political system with numerous historical and contemporary political parties. Several parties have emerged from labor movements, independence activism, and constitutional debates following ArubaâÂÂs Status Aparte in 1986.
Parties
The native party names are mostly in Papiamento or Dutch with several derived from Venezuelan party names in Spanish.
Parties represented in Parliament
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Minor parties (extra-parliamentary)
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Inactive/defunct parties
This list includes parties that are currently registered with the Aruban Electoral Council and/or have participated in a general election either on their own or in a combined list.
- Accion Democratico 86 (Democratic Action 86, AD86)
- (National Democratic Action, ADN)
- (Aruban Democratic Alliance, Aliansa)
- Aruba su Bienestar Organisacion (Organization for ArubaâÂÂs Well-Being, ABO)
- (Consciousness-raising for the Liberation of Aruba, CLA)
- Convergencia Royalista Nacional (Nationalist Royalist Convergence, CORONA)
- Movemento Indigena Arubano (Aruban Indigenous Movement, MIA)
- (Aruban Patriotic Movement, MPA)
- Movimiento Social Independiente (Independent Social Movement, MSI)
- Movimiento Socialista di Aruba (Socialist Movement of Aruba, MSA)
- (Aruban Liberal Organization, OLA)
- (Aruban Democratic Party, PDA)
- Partido Direccion Politiea (Citizenship Direction Party, PDP)
- Partido pa un Aruba Restructura Awor (Party for a Restructured Aruba Now, PARA)
- (Real Democracay Party, PDR)
- Partido Patriotico Nobo (New Patriotic Party, PPN)
- Plataforma Politico di Trahador (Political Platform of Workers, PPT)
- (Proud and Respected People, POR)
- Pueblo Prome (People First, PP)
- Summum Bonum (The Highest Good, Summum Bonum)
- Union Patriotico Progresista (Progressive Patriotic Union, UPP)
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