The Democratic Republican Party (DRP) was a minor political party in
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, sometimes known simply as Saint Vincent or SVG, is an island country in the eastern Caribbean. It is located in the southeast Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, which lie in the West Indies, at the south ...
. The DRP was announced on 23 August 2012 by the founder
Anesia Baptiste.
On 9 October 2020, the leader of the Democratic-Republican Party resigned from politics, effectively leaving the political party defunct.
The Democratic-Republican Party espoused both a belief in
democracy
Democracy (from , ''dēmos'' 'people' and ''kratos'' 'rule') is a form of government in which political power is vested in the people or the population of a state. Under a minimalist definition of democracy, rulers are elected through competitiv ...
as a means of electing government into the office and in
republicanism
Republicanism is a political ideology that encompasses a range of ideas from civic virtue, political participation, harms of corruption, positives of mixed constitution, rule of law, and others. Historically, it emphasizes the idea of self ...
. The party believes that the rights and freedoms of all of the people are inalienable or endowed by the Creator God and that the government's function is to protect these liberties of both the majority who elected it and minorities who did not elect it.
The DRP ran its first slate of six first time candidates for the 9 December 2015 general election.
["St. Vincent and the Grenadines: Democratic Republican Party (DRP),"]
Election Centre 2015, Caribbean Elections, www.caribbeanelections.com/ All six of these DRP nominees were political candidates for the first time.
References
2012 establishments in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Defunct political parties in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Republicanism in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Right-wing parties in North America
Political parties established in 2012
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