The petition
The Aruban Government, which is formed by the Movimiento Electoral di Pueblo (MEP) a single party with a majority of 11 out of 21 seats in the Aruban Parliament, has in recent years been marred by dozens of scandals, wide spread corruption, obstruction of justice and violating the rule of law.
In the last five years the Government of Aruba spending has spiraled out of control and the fiscal budget is ficticious at best and the Aruban Government's finances have been in severe disarray as neither the Central Accounting Office or Court of Audit or the Parliament of Aruba are given up to date reliable accounts of government spending.
Against all expert advice from a wide range of government agencies the Aruba Government introduced a sales tax on January 1, 2007, basically to increase revenues to keep up with pork barrel politics based spending.
Corruption is wide spread and whistleblowers are intimated, persecuted and prosecuted, and increasingly criticisms of the Government are no longer tolerated.
The Public Prosecution Service (Office of the Public Prosecutor) has come under attack recently for serving the interests of the corrupt government and shelving all investigations into government officials and mandatories corruption and committed crimes.
Crimes that have so far eluded prosecution include:
1. charges filed for sexual assault against the Minister of Labor, who admitted having sex with the woman who filed the charges,
2. dozens of cases of irregularities committed by MEP party members, appointed officials and cronies
3. physical assault charges by numerous victims of abuse at the hands of MEP party members, elected officials
4. embezzlement, fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud charges against MEP party members or elected officials
In recent months facts have become public indicating a wide scale and systemic corruption in the Aruba Government, which forms a threat to national security, the rule of law and the economic well-being of Aruba.
The MEP party spearheaded by Nelson Orlando Oduber, Prime Minister of Aruba, has now armed repressive measures and intimidation campaign against the Diario Aruba newspaper, several radio and TV stations and all citizens who want to have a recent bribery scandal brought out into the open.
This scandal involves the NY based H.J. Namdar group offering 1 million Aruban florins to the ruling MEP party in exchange for a lucrative real estate deal in a cruise terminal expansion project in Aruba.
The MEP is currently using Chavez like tactics to intimidate all critics, and is trying to crush free speech in Aruba.
The Charter of the Dutch Kingdom grants the Dutch Government wide rangining powers to intervene in Aruba to safeguard and uphold the rule of law base on Article 43 of said Charter.
Article 43. 1. Each of the countries will ensure the observance of the fundamental human
rights and freedoms, the rule of law and the integrity of administration
2. The guarantee of these rights, freedoms, the rule of law and integrity of administration
are Kingdom matters.
This petition serves to ask the Dutch Parliament to have the Dutch Government invoke Article 43 to issue a Royal Decree by which the Aruban Government can be dissolved and new elections called.
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