Prime Minister Dr. Timothy Harris’ Team Unity Administration was re-elected to a second term with an increased majority on Friday, winning nine of the 11 parliamentary seats – two more since the previous general election of Feb. 16, 2015.
“Our outstanding success at the polls held on the 5th of June is a vindication of our excellent work on behalf of the people,” Harris said Sunday in his inauguration speech.
Team Unity is comprised of the Concerned Citizens Movement (CCM) in Nevis, the People’s Action Movement (PAM) and the People’s Labour Party (PLP) both in St. Kitts.
“We made history by winning the largest share of the vote this time around, securing a national swing to Team Unity of around six percent. We made history in my own constituency (#7) with a swing of 10 percent, making it the strongest results of my 27 years representing the good people of Belle Vue to Ottley’s,” he added.
“At the national level, I believe that the result of the general election was a repudiation of the old ways of doing politics, of grievance by some when they don’t get their own way. It was a repudiation … of an unsustainable debt and the gimmicks and tricks of the old order of politics. It was a repudiation of the bitterness and selfish agenda of those who sought to dictate to the Government, not recognizing that ultimately it is to the broader electorate to which an elected government must respond.”
