The Alliance Party for Progress (APP) is a

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and

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. It was formed on the 30 December 2021 by the United Progressive Party (UPP) and the

People's Party for Democracy and Development The People's Party for Democracy and Development (PdP), abbreviated as the People's Party, is a political party in Barbados established on 8 June 2019 and led by Joseph Atherley. At its foundation, it served as the main opposition party in bot ...

(PdP) to contest the

2022 Barbadian general election General elections were held in Barbados on 19 January 2022 to elect the 30 members of the House of Assembly. The ruling Barbados Labour Party won all 30 seats for the second consecutive election. This was the 12th national election held since i ...

. It is headed by the leader of the PdP Bishop

Joseph Atherley Joseph Junior Sylvester Atherley (born 26 February 1954) is a Barbadian religious minister and politician who served as Leader of the Opposition in the House of Assembly of Barbados from 2018 to 2022, and as leader of the People's Party for Dem ...

with the leader of the UPP

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becoming deputy head.

History

The United Progressive Party was formed in 2017 and Lynette Eastmond was chosen to lead the new party after much media speculation, concerning the political ambitions of Eastmond herself. That same year after discussions with another new Barbados party called the Citizens Action Partnershipbr>
led by Wendell Callender both parties agreed to merge the CAP into the UPP in December 201

http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/108913/party-merger-surprise] The UPP later contested the

2018 Barbadian general election General elections were held in Barbados on 24 May 2018. The result was a landslide victory for the opposition Barbados Labour Party (BLP), which won all 30 seats in the House of Assembly,Barbados Labour Party The Barbados Labour Party (BLP), colloquially known as the "Bees", is a social democratic political party in Barbados established in 1938. Led by Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley, it is the governing party of Barbados and the sole ruling party i ...

(BLP). That same election

of the BLP won back the St. Michael West seat. On 31 May, less than a week after the swearing-in of the new government, Atherley informed the prime minister of his intention to leave the BLP and become an independent parliamentarian. Due to the absence of other non-BLP MPs in Parliament, Atherley was sworn in the next day as

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. He later formed the People's Party for Democracy and Development on 9 June 2018 becoming the official opposition party. On 27 December 2021,

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dissolved parliament and called elections for 19 January 2022. The next week, on the 31 December 2021, Atherley and Eastmond announced an electoral alliance between their two parties to contest the 2022 general elections as the APP.

Electoral results & performance

References

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History

Electoral results & performance

See also

References