Voters in Grenada rejected Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell’s call for them to give him “one for the road” in general elections on 23 June. Veteran leader Mitchell, who has served as prime minister for 22 of the last 27 years at the head of the centre-right New National Party (NNP), with a four-and-a-half year hiatus between 2008 and 2013, will be replaced by a political neophyte and namesake, Dickon Mitchell, whose centre-left National Democratic Congress (NDC) won 60% of the seats in the House of Representatives.
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