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Dr. Moises Frumencio da Costa Gomez (1907–1966) was the first Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles. Da Costa Gomez a lawyer by training was a member of the Roman Catholic Party before founding the National People’s Party in the 1940s. Da Costa Gomez was Prime Minister at the head of a coalition government with the Aruban People’s Party (AVP) from 1951 to 1954. His party negotiated full autonomy at the 1954 Roundtable Conference involving the Netherlands and Suriname.
