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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBarbados elects her first female Prime Minister Mia Mottley, in a stunning election result
The BLP whipped the DLP taking all 30 seats. The election takes on even more significance given the well known fact that Ms. Mottley becomes the first LGBT leader to become PM anywhere in the Commonwealth.
http://www.caribbeanelections.com/bb/elections/bb_results_2018.asp
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Barbados elects her first female Prime Minister Mia Mottley, in a stunning election result (Original Post)
malaise
May 2018
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Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)1. Wow, a month long election season.
We could stand to have something like that!
malaise
(268,930 posts)2. That's the norm in most Commonwealth countries
from nomination day to election day.
malaise
(268,930 posts)3. BBC report
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-44254140
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And yes that sewage system collapse didn't help the DLP
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And yes that sewage system collapse didn't help the DLP
Exotica
(1,461 posts)4. I am over the moon about this
As a lesbian and half Bajan myself, I found DLP's hateful attacks on Mottley disgusting.
https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2018/05/24/barbadoss-mucky-election
The campaign has turned nasty. At the DLPs kick-off rally on May 6th in the dilapidated national stadium, almost every speaker criticised Ms Mottley personallyfor her hair and her clothes as well as for past political mistakes. Lately, the partys leaders have been calling her a lesbian. She is no weakling. Born into a family of lawyers and politicians, she told her teacher in secondary school that she would become Barbadoss first female prime minister.