The wealth of oil on the horizon where Sorinam chooses its next government Election news

The Gran Morgu project may transform the economy of Suriname, which competes with the Guyana -rich neighbor by 2028, as officials expect.

Voters in Surinam, who is on the threshold of a very expected oil boom, began to elect a new parliament, which will later choose the next president for the smallest country in South America.

On Sunday’s elections were already distinguished by fraud allegations and did not witness a major discussion about what the following government, which will hold power until 2030, should do income from the Gran Morgu project abroad. It is to start production in 2028.

Experts said that Surinam, a country that suffers from poverty and inflationary inflation, is expected to get billions of dollars in the contract or contract next of the recently discovered raw deposits.

The project, led by Totalenergies, is the first great effort for Suriname. The former Dutch colony, independent since 1975, discovered reserves that might allow this To compete with the neighboring Guyana His economy grew by 43.6 percent last year – as a prominent product.

“This will be a large amount of income for the country,” President Chan Santuki told Agence France Presse this week. “We are now able to do more for our people, so that everyone can be part of the nation’s growth.”

Santokhi constitutionally qualified for a second term, but with no one party in a clear progress in the elections, opinion polls do not expect the result.

The party that holds most of the seats will lead the upcoming Sorinam government, probably through an alliance with smaller parties, but it is expected that negotiations will take and choose a new president.

Fourteen parties participate in the elections, including the Progressive Reform Party in Santuki and the Left National Democratic Party of the former coup leader President -elect Disi Poountre.

Also running, the Liberation and Public Development Party in the center and Vice President Ronnie Bronzwick, a former rebel fought against the Pots government in the 1980s.

It is expected temporary results by late Sunday.

Sorelam – a diverse country consisting of the descendants of people from India, Indonesia, China, the Netherlands, indigenous population groups, and worshiping Africans – will include the fiftieth anniversary of its independence from the Netherlands in November.

Since independence, it has been increasingly looked at China as a political partner and a commercial partner, and in 2019 it became one of the first Latin American countries to join the belt belt and the Asian road infrastructure.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stopped in Surinam in March in a regional tour aimed at facing the growing influence of China in the region.

More than 90 percent of the country is covered with forests, and it is one of the few in the world with a negative carbon fingerprint.

Santokhi insisted that this situation is not in danger and can use Suriname and increase the oil “to move towards the green energy that we need, and also because we know that fossil energy is limited.”

“It will disappear after 40 years.”