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Barbados: Mia Mottley and her BLP win election in landslide victory
Mottley becomes the first female Prime Minister of Barbados
Mia Mottley and her Barbados Labor Party (BLP) has won the country’s 2018 General Elections unseating the Democratic Labor Party (DLP), which has governed the country since 2008.
The crushing victory for the BLP means that Mottley will be sworn in as Barbados’ first female Prime Minister since the country gained independence in 1966.
Mottley, 52, becomes Barbados’ 8th Prime Minister and the 5th female head of government in the English speaking the Caribbean joining the likes of the late Dame Eugenia Charles of Dominica, Janet Jagan of Guyana, Portia Simpson-Miller in Jamaica and Kamla Persad-Bissessar in Trinidad & Tobago.
The BLP won all 30 seats in the island-nation’s parliament, according to the Electoral and Boundaries Commission, dealing a crushing defeat to incumbent Prime Minister Freundel Stuart and his Democratic Labor Party (DLP).
Mottley, has previously served her country as a cabinet minister and attorney general.