ST GEORGE’S – Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell on Wednesday announced that a general election will not be held in 2025.
Speaking during the adjournment of the December 18 session of the Lower House, he said that his government is just getting started and having an election is not a priority.
“There is no election that will be called in Grenada in 2025, there are lots of elections taking place in the region starting with places like Suriname, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, St Vincent and the Grenadines, The Bahamas, in the not to distance future,” he said.
“St Lucia is the year after, that is assuming everybody goes their full term, but we are only now getting started,” he said while saying that his government which was elected in June 2022 has more initiatives for the country. “You ain’t see nothing yet,” he told the sitting which at that time had no opposition members in the chamber.
Constitutionally, Grenada’s next election should be held no later than October 2027 and 2025 will mark the National Democratic Congress party’s three years in office.
The constitution gives the Prime Minister the authority to dissolve the Parliament and set a general election date anytime.
Dr Keith Mitchell who led the New National Party after winning the June 1995 general election dissolved that Parliament in 1998 and called a general election for January 1999.
That resulted in the NNP winning all 15 seats in that election. (CMC)
