Barbados elects her first female Prime Minister Mia Mottley, in a stunning election result

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The BLP whipped the DLP taking all 30 seats. The election takes on even more significance given the well known fact that Ms. Mottley becomes the first LGBT leader to become PM anywhere in the Commonwealth.

http://www.caribbeanelections.com/bb/elections/bb_results_2018.asp

[Equinox Moon]

1. Wow, a month long election season.

We could stand to have something like that!

[malaise]

2. That's the norm in most Commonwealth countries

from nomination day to election day.

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3. BBC report

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-44254140

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And yes that sewage system collapse didn't help the DLP

[Exotica]

4. I am over the moon about this

As a lesbian and half Bajan myself, I found DLP's hateful attacks on Mottley disgusting.

https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2018/05/24/barbadoss-mucky-election

The campaign has turned nasty. At the DLP’s kick-off rally on May 6th in the dilapidated national stadium, almost every speaker criticised Ms Mottley personally—for her hair and her clothes as well as for past political mistakes. Lately, the party’s leaders have been calling her a lesbian. She is no weakling. Born into a family of lawyers and politicians, she told her teacher in secondary school that she would become Barbados’s first female prime minister.