General elections are set to be held in Suriname on 25 May 2025. This was made public by president Chan Santokhi in his annual speech at the National Assembly on 1 October 2024.[1]
After his resignation in mid-October 2024 as minister of Internal Affairs, Bronto Somohardjo [nl] was succeeded one and a half months later by Delano Landvreugd [nl] as minister and Maurits Hassankhan [nl] as deputy minister. Hassankhan will have the responsibility of organizing the elections of 2025.[2]
The 51 seats in the National Assembly are elected using party-list proportional representation. Previous general elections had been held using ten multi-member constituencies, but following a ruling by the Constitutional Court in 2022 that judged that it was unconstitutional, the constituencies were abolished and all 51 seats will be elected from a single nationwide constituency. This case was started by Serena Essed.[3] The Assembly approved the new electoral system on 13 October 2023.[4]
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