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Tuesday, June 10, 2025

No party wins majority in Cayman Islands election

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39 days ago
20250501

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Po­lit­i­cal par­ties in this British Over­seas ter­ri­to­ry are now scram­bling to form coali­tions on Thurs­day af­ter no sin­gle par­ty clinched a ma­jor­i­ty fol­low­ing  Wednes­day’s gen­er­al elec­tion.

Ac­cord­ing to two pre­lim­i­nary re­sults, the Peo­ple’s Pro­gres­sive Move­ment won sev­en seats in Par­lia­ment, the most out of all par­ties, but was three short of a ma­jor­i­ty.

Mean­while, two new­ly formed par­ties — the Cay­man Is­lands Na­tion­al Par­ty, found­ed by a for­mer man­ag­er at Ernst & Young, and the Cay­man­ian Com­mu­ni­ty Par­ty, es­tab­lished by mem­bers of the dis­solved Unit­ed Peo­ple’s Move­ment — won four seats each.

Three in­de­pen­dent can­di­dates al­so won seats in Par­lia­ment, and par­ties are ex­pect­ed to court them and form a coali­tion.

The leader of the par­ty that wins at least 10 of the 19 elect­ed seats in Par­lia­ment would have be­come the new pre­mier. Two oth­er Par­lia­ment seats are ap­point­ed.

Mean­while, in one of the biggest po­lit­i­cal up­sets in re­cent his­to­ry, an in­de­pen­dent can­di­date, Julie Hunter, won the seat held by vet­er­an politi­cian Mc­K­ee­va Bush for 40 years. 

Bush a for­mer pre­mier of the Cay­man Is­lands, was oust­ed fol­low­ing cor­rup­tion ac­cu­sa­tions that he de­nied. 

His run-ins with the law con­tin­ued, and in a sep­a­rate case, he plead­ed not guilty to charges that he groped a fe­male em­ploy­ee at a casi­no.

In Oc­to­ber 2022, Bush re­signed as the speak­er of Par­lia­ment fol­low­ing oth­er al­le­ga­tions of sex­u­al ha­rass­ment.

Vot­ers al­so par­tic­i­pat­ed in a non­bind­ing ref­er­en­dum. 

They vot­ed in favour of de­crim­i­nal­is­ing the pos­ses­sion and con­sump­tion of small amounts of mar­i­jua­na and of cre­at­ing a na­tion­al lot­tery. 

But they re­ject­ed a pro­pos­al to de­vel­op cruise berthing in­fra­struc­ture, which en­vi­ron­men­tal­ists had op­posed.

GEORGE TOWN, Cay­man Is­lands, May 1, CMC – 

CMC/ci/kb/2025

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