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The House of Assembly is the legislature of Dominica. It is established by Chapter III of the Constitution of Dominica, and together with the President of Dominica constitutes Dominica's Parliament. The House is unicameral, and consists of twenty-one Representatives, nine senators, and the Attorney General as an ex officio member.
The Commonwealth of Dominica offers an official and legally mandated economic citizenship to those seeking a valid second citizenship. The nationality law of Dominica authorises the government to waive the normal requirement of seven years of legal residence to acquire citizenship in exchange for an investment into their country's economy.
The Ministry of Justice, Immigration and National Security of Dominica provides legal advice and representation to the federal government and its departments, as well as administers justice, protects intellectual property rights, and ensures that financial crimes are properly analyzed and investigated.
Dominican nationality law is regulated by the 1978 Constitution of the Commonwealth of Dominica, as amended; the Citizenship Act, and its revisions; and various British Nationality laws. [1] [2] These laws determine who is, or is eligible to be, a national of Dominica.
Dominica has a two-party system, which means that there are two dominant political parties, with extreme difficulty for anybody to achieve electoral success under the banner of any other party. Dominica was once a three-party system, but in the past few years the Dominica Labour Party and the greatly diminished Dominica Freedom Party have built ...
Founded in 1955 by Phyllis Shand Allfrey and Emmanuel Christopher Loblack, the Dominica Labour Party is the oldest political party in Dominica. [1] It first contested general elections in 1961, winning seven of the eleven seats, and party leader Edward Leblanc became Premier of Dominica. [2] In the next elections in 1966 it won all but one of ...
Vince Henderson is a Dominican politician from the Dominica Labour Party.. Vince Henderson. In the 2000 Dominican general election, he defeated Doreen Paul.From March 2010 to 2016, he was the Permanent Representative of Dominica to the United Nations and the United States.
General elections were held in Dominica on 6 December 2019. [1] The elections were constitutionally due by March 2020, but had been widely expected to take place before the end of 2019. [ 2 ] The result was a landslide victory for the ruling Dominica Labour Party , which won 18 of the 21 elected seats, gaining three seats.