US EditionOne of world's longest serving democratic leaders loses election in St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Godwin Friday's New Democratic Party won 14 of 15 seats, promising economic recovery and infrastructure investment amid high unemployment and poverty, preliminary results show.
- On Friday, preliminary results showed Godwin Friday, leader of the New Democratic Party, defeated Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves, ending Gonsalves's 24-year tenure since March 2001 in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
- Facing 18% unemployment and a 26% poverty rate, Friday campaigned on creating jobs, raising wages, and investing in infrastructure as voters in the island group of more than 100,000 recover from the April 2021 La Soufrière eruption.
- Gonsalves's Unity Labour Party posted on Facebook after Thursday's election, saying `We love you, SVG, and we will keep working and advocating for you` while Friday had previously run in 2020.
- Regional ties matter: under Ralph Gonsalves the country signed a free-movement deal last month, and Andrew Holness, Prime Minister of Jamaica, praised Gonsalves as a strong Caricom voice.
- Amid geopolitical contrasts, the New Democratic Party favors closer ties with China and a citizenship-by-investment program, contrasting with Gonsalves's Taiwan relations, and Friday said, `This is not the end, it is the beginning.
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Opposition party wins elections in St. Vincent and the Grenadines
The New Democratic Party (NDP), led by Godwin Friday, secured a majority in Parliament, winning at least 11 of the 15 seats up for grabs, according to preliminary official results reported by the Electoral Commission. The victory makes Friday the seventh prime minister of the Caribbean nation since its independence in 1979, marking a generational and political shift after the dominance of Gonsalves, who governed uninterruptedly since 2001. The r…
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One of world's longest serving democratic leaders loses election in St. Vincent and the Grenadines
St. Vincent and the Grenadines is preparing to welcome a new prime minister for the first time in 24 years after preliminary election results show that Godwin Friday of the New Democratic Party beat Ralph Gonsalves of the Unity Labor Party.
St Vincent opposition New Democratic Party claims election win
KINGSTOWN - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines' opposition New Democratic Party declared victory in Thursday's election, its leader Godwin Friday said on social media, though official results had not yet been released by early Friday. Read more at straitstimes.com.
After 24 years in power, Comrade Ralph loses St Vincent and the Grenadines elections
After 24 consecutive years in office, St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves -also known as Comrade Ralph for his leftwing stance- lost Thursday's elections to historian and political scientist Dr. Goodwin Friday of the center-right New Democratic Party (NDP).
With the scrutiny of 12 of the 15 constituencies completed, the NDP leads in most districts, leading Godwin Friday to become the seventh prime minister of the Caribbean nation.
The opposition New Democratic Party (NDP) won a landslide victory in the general elections of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, which prevented Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves – allied to Chavismo – from fulfilling his goal of governing for a sixth consecutive term. According to the preliminary results published this Friday, NDP, led by Godwin Friday, won fourteen of the fifteen seats in Parliament. Gonsalves, 79, and the longest-standing prime m…
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