Curaçao is one of the three autonomous countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (with Aruba and Saint-Martin).
It has a constitution (Dutch: staatsregelingen) which governs its constitutional organization and which has been approved by a country law (Dutch: landverordening) adopted by a two-thirds majority of the local parliament, in application of Chapter IV of the Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Dutch: Statuut voor het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden) dating from 1954 and reformed in 2010.
In the initial vote on the constitution in July, the two-thirds majority required was not reached, after which new elections were held on 27 August.
The newly elected island council could then adopt the constitution with an ordinary majority.
[1] The constitution entered into force on 10 October 2010, on the date of the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles.