Jamaica Labor Party
| Jamaica Labor Party Jamaican Labor Party |
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| Party leader |
Andrew Holness Chairman Robert Montague |
| Secretary General | Horace Chang |
| founding | July 8, 1943 |
| Headquarters | Kingston , Jamaica |
| Youth organization | Young Jamaica |
| Alignment | conservatism |
| Colours) | green |
| House of Representatives |
32/63 |
| senate |
13/21 |
| Local government |
75/227 |
| International connections |
IDU , Caribbean Democrat Union |
| Website | jamaicalabourparty.com |
The Jamaica Labor Party ( JLP ) is a political party in Jamaica . It was founded in 1943 by Alexander Bustamante as the political arm of the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union .
Despite its name, which suggests a workers' party , the JLP is an economically liberal - conservative party. Its main competitor is the socialist People's National Party (PNP).
Since Jamaica gained independence , it was a ruling party from 1962 to 1972 and from 1980 to 1989.
In the 2002 elections, the JLP received 47.2% of the vote and was the only opposition party with 26 of 60 seats in the Jamaican parliament. In the parliamentary elections on September 3, 2007, the JLP won the majority with 32 out of 60 seats ahead of the PNP. Bruce Golding , since 2005 Party Chairman of the JLP, was elected the new prime minister.
In 2011, Andrew Holness was elected party chairman. In the parliamentary elections at the end of 2011 , the party lost its majority and had to go into the opposition. In the 2016 general election , the JLP regained an absolute majority and Holness became Prime Minister.
During the election campaign in 2001 the party used the song Chi Chi man (→ Battyman-Tune ) by TOK as the theme song, which deals with the burning and murder of gays .
Individual evidence
- ↑ election result on www.jamaicaelections.com , called on 21 January 2018th
- ^ Europolitan : Jamaica elects economically liberal socialist Bruce Golding as Prime Minister on September 4, 2007.
- ^ Gary Younge: Troubled island , guardian.co.uk, April 27, 2006