BRADES, Montserrat, CMC – Former premier Reuben Meade led his newly formed United Alliance (UA) to victory in the general elections here, according to the preliminary figures released by the Montserrat Electoral Commission early on Friday morning.
It said that the UA had won five of the nine seats in the Legislative Assembly, followed by the People’s Democratic Movement (PDM) with three seats and the incumbent Movement for Change and Prosperity (CMAP) winning one seat.
The election saw the defeat of the outgoing premier, Easton Taylor-Farrell, the recently appointed MCAP leader, Dr Samuel Joseph, and a former speaker of the parliament, Osborne Shirley.
MCAP’s sole winner is the outgoing agriculture minister, while former premier Donaldson Romeo, who ran as an independent in the 2019 general election, is one of three successful PDM candidates.
While 3,464 voters were eligible to cast ballots in the election for the “one constituency” Montserrat has become following the destruction caused by the volcano, which last erupted in 2013, each voter was allowed to cast nine ballots.
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