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CAY HILL--Talks to form a new coalition government for the next governing period continued amongst the Democratic Party ((DP)), United St. Martin (US) Party and National Alliance (NA) over the weekend.
The Daily Herald understands that parties met on Sunday to hammer out a more detailed agreement on working together in a new government for Country St. Maarten. Sunday's talks followed the signing of a preliminary agreement shortly after election results were announced in the wee hours of Saturday morning. The details of Sunday's talks could not be ascertained.
NA (four seats), (DP) (two seats) and US (two seats) form an eight seat majority for Parliament's 15 seats. United People's (UP) party won Friday's election with seven seats, but fell short of a majority and if the talks amongst the three other parties are successful, UP will be rendered to the opposition benches as had been the case in 2010 when NA had won elections with a similar seven seats, but ended up in the opposition when UP had teamed up with (DP) for the first coalition government of the country.
