Christian
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electoral alliance
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Barbados
Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of the Americas, and the most easterly of the Caribbean Islands. It occupies an area of and has a population of about 287,000 (2019 estimate ...
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 sinc ...
. It is headed by the leader of the PdP Bishop Joseph Atherley with the leader of the UPP Lynette Eastmond 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 (BLP).
That same election Joseph Atherley 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
Leader of the Opposition
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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,
Prime Minister of Barbados
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Mia Mottley 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.