The Movement for National Reconstruction (MNR) was a political party in

Montserrat Montserrat ( , ) is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. It is part of the Leeward Islands, the northern portion of the Lesser Antilles chain of the West Indies. Montserrat is about long and wide, wit ...

led by Bertrand Osborne.

History

Osborne had previously been leader of the National Development Party, which won a single seat in the 1991 elections. However, by the 1996 elections he had established the MNR. In the elections the party won two of the seven seats in the

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, with Osborne and Adelina Tuitt representing the party in the council. Although the People's Progressive Alliance (PPA) had received the most votes, the MNR formed a coalition government with the National Progressive Party and an independent MP, with Osborne as

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. In 2001 the party merged with the PPA to create the

New People's Liberation Movement The New People's Liberation Movement was a political party in Montserrat led by John Osborne (Montserrat politician), John Osborne. History The NPLM was established in 2001 by a merger of the People's Progressive Alliance (Montserrat), People's P ...

prior to the elections that year.People's Progressive Alliance (PPA)
Caribbean Elections

References

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