Caribbean & Central America - January 2013 (ISSN 1741-4458)

The centre-left National Democratic Congress (NDC) government of Prime Minister Tillman Thomas will face the electorate sometime within the next 90 days, with the exact date to be announced shortly. While its five-year term expires in July, the constitution says that parliament (which has not sat since July, because of Thomas’s fears of losing a no-confidence vote) must have at least one sitting during a six-month period or it should be dissolved and an election called.  Accordingly, rather than recall parliament and face a no-confidence motion, on 9 January Thomas asked the governor-general to dissolve parliament. The conservative New National Party (NNP), in power for two consecutive terms until losing to the NDC in 2008, seems certain to return to government with a substantial majority.

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