Montserrat election on Sept. 11 – Opposition leading in the polls

Incumbent Montserrat Premier Reuben Meade. PHOTO/File

Voters Montserrat will go to the polls in two days – on September 11 to elect a new government.

Nine seats are stake in the polls where Premier Reuben Meade and his ruling Movement for Change and Prosperity Party (MCAP) has been campaigning under the theme “Team to fulfill the dream”.

In 2009, Meade led his party to a majority victory – unseating former premier Lowell Lewis.

According to the latest polls, the newly formed opposition party – the People’s Democratic Movement (PDM) led by Donaldson Romeo, is expected to form the next government.

Romeo said the PDM followed many months of research and discussion that “also looked at devising and planning strategic activities to address, and where possible resolve the concerns and fears, with community and individual action, as well as within the structures of the incoming government”.

The intensive run up to the election has prompted a mass of daily radio and television interviews and promotional recordings with the various candidates – voter turnout is expected to be high.

In the 2009 general election only 19, 261 people voted.