Progressive Liberal Party

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Progressive Liberal Party
Leader	Perry Christie
Slogan	We Believe in Bahamians
Youth wing	Progressive Young Liberals
Ideology	Populism and Social Liberalism
Official colors	Yellow and Blue
House of Assembly	29 / 38
Senate	10 / 16
Website
https://www.myplp.org/

The Progressive Liberal Party is a populist and social liberal party in The Bahamas commonly abbreviated PLP. The PLP lies on the left of the political spectrum. Perry Christie is the leader of the party and is now Prime Minister of the Bahamas as of the May 7, 2012 General Elections.

History

The PLP was founded in 1953, twenty years before independence. The party governed for a total of 30 years, from 1967 to 1992 and again from 2002 to 2007. Leading the party to its first victory in 1967 was Lynden Pindling, the country's first Prime Minister.

Perry Christie was Prime Minister of The Bahamas between May 2, 2002 and the 2007 general elections when the party was defeated by the rival Free National Movement (FNM) which won 23 seats, amid a scandal involving the residency of model and reality television star Anna Nicole Smith and allegations that Christie’s then-immigration minister had fast-tracked her application to live in the island. The FNM installed leader Hubert Ingraham as the Prime Minister. After defeat and one of its MPs leaving the party since, the PLP held 17 of the 41 seats in the Bahamas National Assembly.

In the 2012 general election on 7 May, 2012^[1], the Progressive Liberals won a solid majority in a landslide election victory, taking 29 of the 38 seats in parliament.^[2] Christie was sworn into office on 8 May 2012.^[2]

Hubert Ingraham announced his retirement from politics following the defeat of his party.^[2] This was the first general election in which the Democratic National Alliance, a third party offered a full slate of candidates along with the two major parties^[3]; however, the DNA lost the only seat it held in the prior parliament (that of Branville McCartney, its founder and only MP) and elected no candidates. Elections in the Bahamas take place in the framework of a parliamentary democracy, which relies on the first past the post system of voting.

References

External links

• Progressive Liberal Party official site
• Bahamas 2007 Election results

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