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 (MCAP) winning one seat.
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The election saw the defeat of both the outgoing premier, Easton Taylor-Farrell, and the recently appointed MCAP leader, Dr Samuel Joseph, as well as a former speaker of the parliament, Osborne Shirley.
MCAP’s sole winner is the outgoing agriculture minister, while former premier Donaldson Romeo, who had been an independent candidate in the 2019 general election, is one of three PDM successful candidates.
While there were 3,464 voters eligible to cast ballots in the election for the ‘one constituency’ Montserrat has become following the destruction caused by the volcano whose last eruption was in 2013, each voter was allowed to cast nine ballots. CMC
