SURINAME – “We are strong enough to participate in the elections on our own,” said Jim Hok, chairman of the PALU, on Friday when this party was registered as individual party.  Initial reports had indicated that the PALU would join the AC bloc. The PALU chairman pointed out that he bears no malice against the Alternative Combination (AC), ABOP, KTPI and PDO over an empty promise. “I think that the ABOP chairman’s intentions to collaborate with PALU  were sincere. But the ABOP promised us something and not the AC…[+]