The Schotte-cabinet relied on a majority of 11 out of 21 seats in the Estates (the parties Movementu Futuro Korsou (MFK), Pueblo Soberano (PS) and Movishon Antia Nobo (MAN)).
When Eugene Cleopa (MAN) and MFK parliamentary leader Dean Rozier decided to leave their fraction, and to stay in the Estates as an individual party, the Cabinet lost its majority.
The move of Cleopa and Rozier was a result of problematic relationship with the Netherlands and charges of corruption and nepotism of the Scholte government.
[5] 116,857 people were eligible to vote by satisfying 3 main criteria[8] residents of Curaçao of at least 18 years of age with Dutch citizenship.
The elections were supervised by observers from Aruba, Sint Maarten, Trinidad and Tobago and the Dominican Republic.