The New People's Liberation Movement was a

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in Montserrat led by John Osborne.

History

The NPLM was established in 2001 by a merger of the People's Progressive Alliance and the Movement for National Reconstruction,People's Progressive Alliance (PPA)
Caribbean Elections with PPA leader John Osborne becoming leader of the new party. In the

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later that year, it received 52% of the vote and won seven of the nine seats in the Legislative Council, resulting in Osborne becoming

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. In the

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the party was reduced to three seats. Although it was able to form a coalition government with the Montserrat Democratic Party (which had one seat) and an independent MP, Osborne stepped down as Chief Minister and MDP leader Lowell Lewis became Chief Minister.

References

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