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Monday, July 7, 2025

Keith Mitchell’s decision to call early election backfires

NDC takes over power in Grenada

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National Democratic Congress leader Dickon Mitchell during the recent campaign for the Grenada elections. Mitchell unseated Dr Keith Mitchell’s New National Party 9-6, according to preliminary results.

National Democratic Congress leader Dickon Mitchell during the recent campaign for the Grenada elections. Mitchell unseated Dr Keith Mitchell’s New National Party 9-6, according to preliminary results.

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ST GEORGE’S, Grena­da - Na­tion­al De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Con­gress leader Dick­on Mitchell yes­ter­day un­seat­ed Dr Kei­th Mitchell’s New Na­tion­al Par­ty (NNP) to be­come Grena­da’s Prime Min­is­ter-des­ig­nate.

Ac­cord­ing to pre­lim­i­nary re­sults, Mitchell’s NDC won yes­ter­day’s gen­er­al elec­tions by tak­ing nine of the 15 seats.

Mitchell, a 44-year-old at­tor­ney who on­ly took over the op­po­si­tion par­ty in Oc­to­ber last year, de­feat­ed For­eign Af­fairs Min­is­ter Oliv­er Joseph by 4,414 to 2,742 votes in the St David con­stituen­cy and is ex­pect­ed to be sworn in as the new prime min­is­ter of Grena­da to­day.

In a mes­sage post­ed on its web­site, the NDC said con­grat­u­lat­ed the vot­ing pub­lic for plac­ing con­fi­dence in them to take the coun­try for­ward.

“We are over­whelmed with grat­i­tude and stand hum­bled be­fore the Lord our God and you, the peo­ple of Grena­da, Car­ri­a­cou & Pe­tite Mar­tinique,” the NDC, which had lost the last two elec­tions 15-0, said.

“Thank you from the bot­tom of each and every one of our hearts. This vic­to­ry is not ours, but yours. Now, the hard work be­gins, but, first, join us at La Sagesse Play­ing Field for a spe­cial vic­to­ry cel­e­bra­tion. To­geth­er, we are mov­ing Grena­da FOR­WARD,” the NDC added.

Dr Mitchell, who called the elec­tion ahead of the con­sti­tu­tion­al March 2023 dead­line, polled 2,211 votes to eas­i­ly de­feat the NDC’s Jonathan LaCrette (773) in com­fort­ably re­tak­ing his St George North West seat.

Sev­er­al gov­ern­ment min­is­ters, in­clud­ing Fi­nance Min­is­ter Gre­go­ry Bowen, Min­is­ter of Le­gal Af­fairs Kin­dra Math­urin-Stew­art, Min­is­ter with re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for Forestry and Fish­eries Alvin Da Breo, Min­is­ter for In­fra­struc­ture De­vel­op­ment Nolan Cox and Min­is­ter for In­for­ma­tion and Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Tech­nol­o­gy Pamela Moses, all lost their seats. (CMC)


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