PHILIPSBURG--Concordia Political Alliance (CPA) on Wednesday won its case to add another candidate - Leo Richardson - to its party's slate and to have that person inscribed into the voter's registry.

"I am very happy that we won both requests. As I said from the beginning, we felt like David against Goliath. This is an extraordinary situation," CPA Leader Jeffrey Richardson told The Daily Herald shortly after receiving the verdict. The judge was forced to issue a verbal verdict as there was a power outage in the area at the time.

Chairman of the Main Voting Bureau Acting Lt. Governor Reynold Groeneveldt said the Bureau will abide by the court's decision. CPA will be given until this Friday to present its new list with accompanying documents. The list will be immediately validated.

CPA had protested about Leo Richardson not being allowed to be on the list because he was not properly registered in the Civil Registry. Leo Richardson was already registered in the system on January 1, 1986 at the time that Aruba separated from the Netherlands Antilles. However, after he had left the island and returned there were some issues. Leo Richardson was represented by attorney Zylena Bary.

Groeneveldt said during the validation of candidates list earlier in the day that the Main Voting Bureau would abide by whatever decision is made by the court.

The candidate lists of the three other parties contesting the September 17, early Island Council elections were validated on Wednesday morning. These parties are National Alliance (NA); United People's (UP) party and Democratic Party (DP).