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Barbados elects first female PM in opposition landslide

BRIDGETOWN (Reuters) - Barbados elected its first female prime minister as the opposition inflicted a crushing defeat on the ruling Democratic Labour Party (DLP), winning all the seats in the Caribbean island’s parliament, election results showed on Friday.

Mia Mottley’s victory in Thursday’s elections returns the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) to power on the island of some 285,000 people for the first time in a decade.

The Electoral and Boundaries Commission said the BLP had elected all 30 members of the parliament, delivering the first clean sweep in the history of the legislature. The DLP had previously held a slim majority with 16 seats.

“This victory is the people of Barbados’ victory,” Mottley, 52, told supporters outside the BLP’s Bridgetown headquarters early on Friday, calling the result a vote for a more inclusive and transparent kind of leadership for Barbados.

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Former Member

Is Guyana next?

5/27/1812:03 PM

Bibi HaniffaGNI Queen

skeldon_man posted:
Is Guyana next?

For the opposition landslide or the female?

5/27/1812:04 PM

Former Member

Bibi Haniffa posted:
skeldon_man posted:
Is Guyana next?
For the opposition landslide or the female?

How about both?

5/27/1812:06 PM

ballSenior Member

is good that wan female win, now the house goin be clean.

Former Member

ball posted:
is good that wan female win, now the house goin be clean.

Women are grabbing power by legal means where they are allowed to do so. Go women power. We will see this in America come November.

Bibi HaniffaGNI Queen

Mia Mottley is very qualified. She was a Minister and Attorney General of Barbados. She also comes from a long line of politicians in her family.

Former Member

skeldon_man posted:
Is Guyana next?

We had Janet Jagan.

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