The Caribbean island elected its first president, the second. She replaces Queen Elizabeth as head of state.
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On the 55th anniversary of its independence, Barbados’ long-awaited wish is finally fulfilled: the Caribbean island nation plans to declare a republic. At the event on November 30, the country’s new president made the second. Elizabeth writes that Elizabeth will replace the Queen as Head of State Hungarian nation.
Sandra Mason was voted in as president by a two-thirds majority on Wednesday by the Barbados parliament. In their statement, they declared that the election of the first head of state was a milestone on the road to the Republic.
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Motley described the presidential election as an important moment in the country’s history.
“The woman we have just elected our president, Barbados to the core, is pretending to be no one else and reflecting the values that set us apart.”
Rejoice Prime Minister. Sandra Mason, 72, a law graduate, has been the country’s Governor-General since 2018, and was also the first female member of the Barbados Court of Appeal. The prime minister added that they were confident they could continue to engage with the British monarch.
The government of the Caribbean island last year announced his planThey will leave the colonial past behind forever.
In 1998, the Constitutional Committee of Barbados recommended converting to a republic, which was also advocated by the former prime minister, who resigned in 2018.
The small island, with an area of barely 439 square kilometers and a population of about 300,000, declared its independence in 1966, but, like many other former British colonies, it retained its constitutional monarchy, although the British governor was in fact only a ceremonial role. .
Barbados is not the first country in the former British colonial empire to secede from the monarchy, although it has been unprecedented for nearly three decades.
More recently, in 1992, Mauritius in East Africa decided to say goodbye to the Queen. A wave of secession has typically swept the Caribbean in the few years since independence: Guyana in 1970, Trinidad and Tobago in 1976, and the Dominican Republic in 1978.
as before a Hungarian nation Also reported, currently 15 other countries belong to II. Elizabeth’s “empire”, including such giants as Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Change is on the table mainly in two countries: the Caribbean, as well as in Jamaica, where local political difficulties hinder decision-making, and Australia. The latter also held a referendum on the issue in 1999, but the Republicans failed to do so, but twenty years later, it was not far from the agenda.
Wassim Mola of the Atlantic Council’s US think tank told Reuters that Barbados could benefit from presidential elections at home and abroad.
“The small developing Caribbean island can be put on the political map of the world and its current leadership can also benefit from this nationalist move.”
Wassim Mulla analyzed developments in Barbados. He added that he did not think it was likely that other Caribbean leaders would soon follow suit.
