The opposition wins every seat in the Barbados Parliament
Overflowing sewers and a stagnant economy led to the unprecedented result
THE tally looked like a parody of a rigged election. On May 24th the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) won three-quarters of the vote for the country’s House of Assembly—and every one of the chamber’s 30 seats. Yet no one alleged fraud when the results came out. Instead, the new prime minister, Mia Mottley, faced an unprecedented policy dilemma: how the opposition’s constitutional duties can be performed if there is no opposition in Parliament.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “A clean sweep”
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