ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Dominica Wednesday elected 58-year-old Sylvanie Burton because the island’s first-ever girl head of state to switch outgoing President Charles Savarin, whose two-five-year time period of workplace ends on October 1 this yr.
Burton simply defeated Mrs. Anette Sanford, who, like the federal government nominee, is from the Kaliangoo Territory, the place the descendants of the nation’s indigenous individuals, the Caribs, nonetheless resided.
Mrs. Burton, a former senior public servant, acquired 20 votes, whereas Mrs. Sandford acquired 5. At the least six authorities ministers and one opposition legislator have been absent when the vote was taken.
“This can be a pink letter day for the individuals of the Kalinagoo individuals,’ Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit informed Parliament.
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