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St Kitts & Nevis: Douglas’ party ready to concede – Timothy Harris, likely to form new government
St Kitts & Nevis voters have denied Prime Minister Denzil Douglas an opportunity of becoming the first regional leader to win 5 consecutive general elections and instead voted Team Unity, an alliance of 3 opposition parties to form the next government.
While the Electoral Commission has not officially released the results of the elections, Douglas’ St Kitts & Nevis Labor Party (SKNLP) appeared willing to concede the victory on Tuesday.
The outgoing Information Minister Nigel Carty said while the entire country is awaiting the results, the Supervisor of Elections, Wingrove George “does have a serious obligation to address the country on what is the country’s most critical event – the elections.
“Therefore we want to say to the general public that we would really like for this matter to be over as quickly as possible. We are calling on the supervisor to do what is required to ensure that the results are announced as quickly as possible.”
Carty said “however we believe that based upon the information which is coming from the various constituencies – we believe from what is stacking up that the unity coalition may have won the elections and we want the country to be able to know what precisely are the results of the elections so we can move on”.
He added that the SKNLP was calling upon George “to appear as quickly as possible to make the requisite announcement to the country so that the country can move on less this be seen as something that it is not meant to be,” said Carty, who is also the SKNLP deputy chairman.
The Electoral Commission is expected to issue a statement later on Tuesday.
The Team Unity alliance led by economist, Timothy Harris, 51, a one-time senior cabinet minister in a Douglas administration, said it had won at least 7 of the 11 seats that were at stake in Monday’s elections.
The alliance comprises the main opposition People’s Action Movement (PAM), the People’s Labor Party (PLP) and the Concerned Citizens Movement (CCM). Timothy said he was going to hold talks with Governor General Sir Edmund Lawrence later on Tuesday.
