Politics
Bahamas decision time as general election starts today May 7, 2012
Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) leader Perry Christie, left and Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham, right. PHOTO/File
The Bahamas begins its 2012 election Monday, as voters head to the polls to decide the fates of the ruling Free National Movement (FNM), opposition Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) and upstart Democratic National Alliance (DNA).
While a number of the Bahamas citizens voted in the country’s Advance Poll last Tuesday (a vote which was, for the first time, expanded beyond uniformed officers and poll workers), it’s Monday’s vote that will ultimately decide the identity of the country’s new government.
The Free National Movement, led by current Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham, is campaigning on a number of new infrastructure initiatives, from a massive road works project to a new international departures terminal at Nassau’s airport, part of its “We Deliver” campaign slogan.
The PLP, on the other hand, led by former Prime Minister Perry Christie, alleges that these investments have come at the cost of the citizens of the Bahamas, hence its slogan of Investing in people of the Bahamas.