Jamaica’s First Female Prime Minister Suffers Stunning Defeat In General Elections
Jamaica PM Andrew Holness
Published on Feb 26 2016. News Americas.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Fri. Feb. 26, 2016: Jamaica’s People’s National Party and its first female Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller were last night handed a stunning defeat in Thursday’s general elections.
Despite predictions in many quarters that the PNP and Simpson-Miller were headed for another term, the opposition Jamaica Labour Party led by Andrew Holness, managed to take the win, claiming 33 of the 63 seats in the elections. The PNP only managed to secure win 30 seats, following a trend across the Caribbean that has only been bucked in recent elections in Belize.
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“But only 47.5 percent of the over 1.8 million registered voters went to the polls, the lowest ever in the history of parliamentary voting in the country, despite the addition of nearly 200,000 new voters to voter lists.”
I hope the Jamaica elections is a lesson for Democrats in the USA – If you do not find your apathetic asses to the polls – You will be Trumped.