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When Belize became fully independent and joined in the Commonwealth [2] on September 21, 1981, the two parties UDP (United Democratic Party) and PUP rose in the political scene. [3] This made an effect two-party system. [3] The UDP believes in pro-business and the PUP believes in pro-labour but both are closely centred in the spectrum. [3]
Conservative United Democratic Party led Belize 12 years under Prime Minister Dean Barrow, until general election in November 2020 was won by the opposition centre-left PUP party. The leader of the People’s United Party (PUP) Johnny Briceño, a former deputy prime minister, became the new prime minister of Belize on 13 November 2021. [1] [2]
The United Democratic Party (Spanish: Partido Democrático Unido; [6] [7] abbreviated UDP) is one of the two major political parties in Belize.It is currently the main opposition party, having lost the 2020 Belizean general election, after previously holding the government across three prior terms.
The PUP was founded in 1950 out of the Nationalist Movement, as an anti-colonial party while the country was ruled by the United Kingdom as British Honduras.Under George Cadle Price the PUP played a major role in negotiating Belize's self-government in 1964 and eventual independence in 1981.
The Belize Progressive Party (BPP) is a Belizean political party founded in 2015 by a merger of several extra-parliamentary opposition groups.The BPP made its electoral debut in the November 2015 general election, in which it fielded 25 candidates and captured 1.63 percent of the vote nationwide (2,336 votes).
As of 8 February 2008, the Government of Belize is controlled by the United Democratic Party (Belize) (UDP) which has a confirmed majority in the House of Representatives after general elections of 7 February 2008. The former government, the People's United Party (PUP) is now in Opposition, after having governed Belize from 28 August 1998 to 8 ...
In Belize's 2003 General Elections, 29 constituencies voted in their Area Representatives for Belize's House of Representatives. Since then it was noted that the difference in voting populations between the most and least populous constituencies was rather large (Cayo South then had 8,000 voters compared to Pickstock's 1000+).
The National Independence Party of Belize was a merger of two Belizean political parties that effectively served as the chief opposition party in Belize for practically all of its existence. It was formed in July 1958 and dissolved as part of the formation of the new United Democratic Party in 1973. [1]