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Latest Update – Cayman Islands Premier Bush removed from office in no-confidence motion
Immediate past Cayman Islands Premier., McKeeva Bush. PHOTO/File
The embattled Premier of the Cayman Islands – McKeeva Bush was removed from office in a no-confidence vote by lawmakers in the Cayman Islands House of Assembly on Tuesday afternoon.
The legislators voted 11-3 in favor of a “no confidence” motion against the ruling government.
Bush abstained from voting on the motion.
This will be the first time since 2001, that the legislature has effectively removed a sitting head of the government.
It is not quite clear whether the country would have a reconstituted government or if it would have to dissolve parliament and call for early elections.
Opposition leader, Alden McLaughlin, reportedly started the meeting by stating he was introducing the no confidence motion “with a heavy heart”.
“I am deeply saddened that we have come to this point,” he said. “I cannot say how disappointed I am that the Mr. Bush has brought us to this point…the reality that faced with all of this, the premier will still cling … to the Office of Premier.”
