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United Progressive Party (Antigua And Barbuda)
The United Progressive Party is a political party in Antigua and Barbuda. Previously led by Baldwin Spencer, it was the governing party from 2004 to 2014. It has been in opposition since the 2014 election and is now led by Harold Lovell with leadership in parliament by Jamale L. Pringle (who serves as Leader of the Opposition in parliament as the only United Progressive Party member who won a seat in the 2018 general election). Foundation The United Progressive Party was formed in 1992 through a merger of three parties, namely the Antigua Caribbean Liberation Movement, the Progressive Labour Movement and the United National Democratic Party.Nohlen, D (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p63 Each party was in opposition to the Antigua Labour Party The Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party (ABLP) is a political party in Antigua and Barbuda. The current leader of the party is Gaston Browne, who serves as the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Lovell
Harold Earl Edmund Lovell (born September 27, 1955) is a politician from Antigua and Barbuda. He was the Minister of Finance, the Economy and Public Administration. He was also the minister of tourism and civil aviation. He was the Foreign Minister of Antigua and Barbuda from August 2004 to January 2005, when Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer took over those posts in a cabinet reshuffle, giving Lovell his current posts. Early life and education Harold Lovell Jr. was born on September 27, 1955, in St. John's city. He attended the Antigua Grammar School and obtained his tertiary education at the University of the West Indies where he obtained his bachelor's degree in Geography and Geology. In 1984, he went on to study at the Thames Valley University and Middle Temple, qualifying him as a Barrister-at-Law. He also holds a Masters of Jurisprudence Degree from the University of Birmingham. Career Harold's professional life started at the Antigua Public Utilities Authority. He ent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baldwin Spencer (politician)
Winston Baldwin Spencer (born 8 October 1948) is an Antiguan politician who was the third Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda from 2004 to 2014. Spencer led the opposition United Progressive Party (UPP) to victory in the March 2004 parliamentary election. In addition to serving as Prime Minister, he became Minister of Foreign Affairs on 6 January 2005. Spencer's party was swept from power in the June 2014 general election. Political career Leader of the Opposition Baldwin Spencer is rooted in labour. For a quarter-century, he was a prominent labour leader with the Antigua and Barbuda Workers Union. He was first elected to Parliament in 1989 as the MP for the St. John's Rural West constituency. In 1992, Spencer played an integral role in the formation of the United Progressive Party. He previously served as a leader with the United National Democratic Party and spearheaded collaborative meetings with the Antigua Caribbean Liberation Movement that resulted in the formati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Democratic Parties
Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy. As a policy regime, it is described by academics as advocating economic and social interventions to promote social justice within the framework of a liberal-democratic polity and a capitalist-oriented mixed economy. The protocols and norms used to accomplish this involve a commitment to representative and participatory democracy, measures for income redistribution, regulation of the economy in the general interest, and social welfare provisions. Due to longstanding governance by social democratic parties during the post-war consensus and their influence on socioeconomic policy in Northern and Western Europe, social democracy became associated with Keynesianism, the Nordic model, the social-liberal paradigm, and welfare states within political circles in the late 20th century. It has been described as the most common form of Western or modern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Parties In Antigua And Barbuda
This article lists political parties in Antigua and Barbuda. Antigua and Barbuda has a two-party system, which means that there are two dominant political parties, with extreme difficulty for anybody to achieve electoral success under the banner of any other party. Parties Major parties Other parties *Barbuda People's Movement for Change *Barbudans for a Better Barbuda * Democratic People's Party *First Christian Democratic Party * National Labour Party *National Movement for Change * National Reform Movement * Organisation for National Development Former parties *Antigua Caribbean Liberation Movement * Barbuda Independence Movement *New Barbuda Development Movement *Progressive Labour Movement *United National Democratic Party See also * Politics of Antigua and Barbuda * List of political parties by country {{Americas topic, List of political parties in Antigua Antigua and Barbuda Political parties Parties A party is a gathering of people who have bee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Antiguan General Election
General elections were held in Antigua and Barbuda on 21 March 2018 to elect members to House of Representatives of the 15th Antigua and Barbuda Parliament. Each of the 17 constituencies elected one Member of Parliament (MP). The governing Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party led by Gaston Browne was returned to power, winning 15 of the 17 seats, increasing their majority by one seat. The United Progressive Party, the official opposition, led by Harold Lovell, was reduced to a single seat and Lovell failed to be elected. Electoral system The 17 elected members of the House of Representatives were elected in single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting; 16 of the seats were allocated for the island of Antigua and one for the island of Barbuda. Barbudan electors were required to travel to Antigua to vote as a result of the aftermath of hurricane Irma. Campaign A total of 53 candidates contested the elections, representing seven parties. The Antigua and Barbuda Labour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Antiguan General Election
General elections were held in Antigua and Barbuda on 12 June 2014. The result was a victory for the opposition Antigua Labour Party led by Gaston Browne, which won 14 of the 17 seats. Following the election, Browne became the country's youngest Prime Minister. Background After a long delay due to a pending Court order about a boundary change which would have affected the parliamentary seats, on 15 May 2014 the Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer set the election day. Electoral system The 17 elected members of the House of Representatives were elected in single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post. IPU There were 164 polling stations. Campaign During the campaign |
2009 Antiguan General Election
General elections were held in Antigua and Barbuda on 12 March 2009. The result was a victory for the United Progressive Party (Antigua and Barbuda), United Progressive Party, which won nine of the seventeen elected seats in the House of Representatives (Antigua and Barbuda), House of Representatives. Conduct Three days before the elections the Chamber of Commerce announced observations of voter registration irregularities and called for an investigation into the matter. For example, in the Saint Peter constituency, voter registration increased by 41%. A three-member observation team from Belize, Canada, and Guyana observed the election. Results Aftermath On 31 March 2010, a judge nullified the election of UPP's leader Spencer and two other UPP MPs, calling the UPP's majority into question. However, on 24 October the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, Court of Appeal of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court overturned the High Court's decision and decided that the three MPs were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Antiguan General Election
General elections were held in Antigua and Barbuda on 23 March 2004. The result was a victory for the opposition United Progressive Party (UPP), which defeated the incumbent Antigua Labour Party. Baldwin Spencer, leader of the UPP, replaced Lester Bird as Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, with Bird being one of eight Labour MPs to lose his seat. Spencer became only the second Prime Minister from outside the Bird family or the Labour Party. Bird had been Prime Minister since 1994, when he succeeded his father, Vere Bird, who had been Prime Minister from independence in 1981, having previously served as Chief Minister or Premier of Antigua since 1960 with the exception of the 1971–1976 period. Campaign The Bird family was widely accused of corruption and nepotism. The ''Jamaica Observer'' noted that "Bird's government had been badly damaged by scandals that in recent years have centred on allegations of bribery, misuse of funds in the national health insurance plan, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1999 Antiguan General Election
General elections were held in Antigua and Barbuda on 9 March 1999. Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p66 The elections were won by the governing Antigua Labour Party. Lester Bird was re-elected Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda. Voter turnout was 63.6%. The elections were extremely close, with the UPP losing five seats by a narrow 554 votes in total, and had the elections been free and fair (the government controlled almost all newspapers as well as television and radio stations), the opposition could have won a majority.Nohlen, p63 Opposition leader Baldwin Spencer criticised the conduct and fairness of the elections and began a hunger strike in protest to the flaws in the system. The government responded by establishing the independent Antigua & Barbuda Electoral Commission in 2001. Results References External links Election reportfrom the Center for Strategic and International Studies The Center for Strategi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1994 Antiguan General Election
General elections were held in Antigua and Barbuda on 8 March 1994.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p66 They were won by the governing Antigua Labour Party under the leadership of Lester Bird. Bird had been appointed leader of the ALP before the elections, after his father and predecessor Vere Bird announced his intention to retire. Lester Bird became Prime Minister after elections. Voter turnout was 62.3%. This was the first election contested by the United Progressive Party, under future Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer. The elections were described as neither free nor fair, as they were marred by several problems, including failing to guarantee a secret ballot, a deficient registration process open to abuse, and the inflation of the voter registry by 25% with the names of deceased people or emigrants.Nohlen, p62 Results References Antigua Elections in Antigua and Barbuda General election A general election is a politi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antigua Labour Party
The Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party (ABLP) is a political party in Antigua and Barbuda. The current leader of the party is Gaston Browne, who serves as the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda. The party had previously been led by Lester Bird, who was chairman of the party since 1971, and became Prime Minister and political leader in 1994. The party was founded as the Antigua Labour Party (ALP) by Lester's father, V.C. Bird. The ABLP has traditionally largely been seen as the political arm of the Bird family. With the exception of five years in the 1970s, the ABLP ruled Antigua and Barbuda for over four decades. It was in opposition from 2004 to 2014, and it has been in power again since 2014 since winning a majority of the seats in the Legislature following the 2014 general election. 2004 defeat Two major events precipitated the ABLP's first defeat in 28 years in the 2004 elections. The first was the introduction of the Electoral Commission after the 1999 election. Acco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antigua And Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda (, ) is a sovereign country in the West Indies. It lies at the juncture of the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean in the Leeward Islands part of the Lesser Antilles, at 17°N latitude. The country consists of two major islands, Antigua and Barbuda, approximately apart, and several smaller islands, including Great Bird, Green, Guiana, Long, Maiden, Prickly Pear, York, and Redonda. The permanent population is approximately 97,120 ( est.), 97% residing in Antigua. St. John's, Antigua, is the country's capital, major city, and largest port. Codrington is Barbuda's largest town. In 1493, Christopher Columbus reconnoitred the island of Antigua, which he named for the Church of Santa María La Antigua.Crocker, John. "Barbuda Eyes Statehood and Tourists". ''The Washington Post''. 28 January 1968. p. E11. Great Britain colonized Antigua in 1632 and Barbuda in 1678. A part of the Federal Colony of the Leeward Islands from 1871, Antigua and Barbuda j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
