New Democratic party victory is crushing defeat for Unity Labour, which has held power since 2001
New Democratic party victory is crushing defeat for Unity Labour, which has held power since 2001
The New Democratic party (NDP) in the Caribbean country of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) is celebrating a historic landslide victory, taking 14 of 15 seats, according to preliminary results.
The decisive vote was a crushing defeat for the Unity Labour party (ULP), which has been in power since 2001.
The outgoing prime minister, Ralph Gonsalves, was the only ULP candidate to hold on to their seat in the elections where there was a severe decline in the party’s previous nine-seat majority.
Gonsalves, the Caribbean’s longest-serving prime minister, will hand over the reins to the NDP’s Godwin Friday.
“Looks like a giant has fallen in Vincy,” Peter Wickham, a regional political analyst, said on Facebook as it became apparent that Gonsalves, a prominent climate justice and slavery reparations advocate, was going to lose the elections.
Other governments in the region congratulated Friday on the result.
