Barrow Landslide in Elections

March 2008 | Risk Summary

The results of the February 7 general elections gave challenger Dean Barrow of the United Democratic Party (UDP) a landslide victory, defeating the Peoples' United Party (PUP) of incumbent Prime Minister Said Musa with an overwhelming margin. Barrow, who was sworn in as the country's first black prime minister, had campaigned on a platform of cleaning up the corruption scandals and financial mismanagement that he said had characterised the last years of Musa's administration. In a statement at the end of February the new government said that it had asked the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) to investigate a number of

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