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Caribbean & Central America - June 2018 (ISSN 1741-4458)

BARBADOS: BLP returns in a landslide

The economy and precedent were always against the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) winning a third consecutive term in power (a feat achieved only once in post-independence Barbados, by the Barbados Labour Party – BLP – in 2003), but the electorate’s verdict on the DLP’s second term was even more brutal than most observers had imagined it would be. The Barbados Labour Party (BLP) won all 30 of the seats contested in an unprecedented whitewash. BLP leader Mia Mottley is now Barbados’s first female prime minister, although she is not the first Mottley to hold high office.

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