Bahamas Democratic Movement
Bahamas Democratic Movement (short BDM , dt. Bahamas Democratic Movement ) was a liberal - populist party in the Bahamas , which remained in parliament without representatives.
Party history
The party was founded in late 1998 in Nassau , the capital of the Bahamas, and first officially appeared in February 2000. The founders of the BDM included Cassius Stuart, Howard R. Johnson, Dario Roberts, George Carey and some of the students at the University of the Bahamas at the time . A major concern of the party has been the government's failure to involve young people in political decision-making. A year later, the party broke up due to a dispute between Stuart and other founding members.
The party hit the headlines in the Bahamas twice. On December 3, 2001, Stuart and another party member broke off a session of Parliament and handcuffed themselves to the mace, the ceremonial status symbol of the Speaker of Parliament, to protest the government's gerrymandering . On March 24, 2005, the same actors prevented the then-incumbent Prime Minister of the Bahamas, Perry Christie , from entering the parliament building.