Leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP) Godwin Friday, 66, led the party to victory in Thursday’s general election, winning 14 of the 15 parliamentary seats.
Preliminary results show that only Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves, 79, retained his seat as voters rejected the Unity Labour Party’s (ULP) bid for a sixth consecutive term in office.
This means that Ralph Gonsalves, CARICOM longest-serving head of state, returns to Parliament as the sole elected opposition lawmaker.
The results come even as the ULP candidates had presented Gonsavles as having more energy than any of them, though some of the members of the ULP team were three decades younger than their leader.
