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The Leader of the Opposition is seen as an alternate Premier-in-waiting and leads Bermuda's Opposition and Shadow Cabinet. The current holder of the post of Leader of the Opposition is The Hon. N. H. Cole Simons, JP, MP [1]
From 1968 — Bermuda's first party-based election — to 1998, the United Bermuda Party (UBP) controlled Parliament. In 1998, it was supplanted by the slightly older PLP. Most UBP members merged with a breakaway party called the Bermuda Democratic Alliance in 2011 to form the OBA. The PLP and OBA currently hold all of the seats in the House of ...
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Sir John William David Swan KBE (born 1935 in Bermuda) is a former Bermudian political figure, a real estate developer and a philanthropist. He served as Premier of Bermuda from 1982 to 1995; Ewart Frederick Brown, Jr (born 1946 in Bermuda) was the ninth Premier of Bermuda and former leader of the Progressive Labour Party (PLP) from 2006 to ...
It was created in May 2011 by the merger of most members of Bermuda's two non-Labour parties, the United Bermuda Party and the Bermuda Democratic Alliance. It won the 2012 election and governed until 2017. Since then, it has been the official opposition in Bermuda's House of Assembly (currently holding 6 of its 36 seats).
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He joined the Bermuda Union Of Teachers but quickly realised that he was more likely to effect change through wider island politics. [ 1 ] The formation of the PLP in 1962, with its call for major reforms, inspired Wade to join the party, where he became secretary of the party's Devonshire Parish branch.
On 21 August 2020 Premier Edward David Burt announced that Governor of Bermuda John Rankin has accepted his advice to call a snap election. [1] The election resulted in the largest victory for one party since party politics began in Bermuda in 1968, as the Progressive Labour Party won 62% of the vote and 30 of 36 seats (including 3 seats where ...