{"id":236570,"date":"2019-10-13T22:50:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T02:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=236570"},"modified":"2019-10-14T11:25:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T15:25:44","slug":"updatepm-to-call-elections-within-100-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/updatepm-to-call-elections-within-100-days\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: PM to call elections within 100 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_236576\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-236576\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-236576 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Skerrit-100-days-e1571060194738-642x464.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Skerrit-100-days-e1571060194738-642x464.jpg 642w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Skerrit-100-days-e1571060194738-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Skerrit-100-days-e1571060194738-768x555.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Skerrit-100-days-e1571060194738-640x463.jpg 640w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Skerrit-100-days-e1571060194738.jpg 925w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-236576\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skerrit speaking at the launch of Kent Edwards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Dominica Labour party believes it has what it takes to win the next general elections and to show its confidence, its leader Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said within the next 100 days voters will go to the polls to prove just that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Skerrit made the announcement during the official launch of Kent Edwards in La Plaine last night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is widely speculated that the prime minister will announce the official date when he launches the last candidate- his wife Melissa- in Roseau Central.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe series of launches is coming to an end,\u201d he said\u2026And \u201cI promised you in the Valley that I would tell you when I am going to launch Melissa Skerrit. But it\u2019s not that date you want. It is the election date you want. I will say tonight and I certainly couldn\u2019t have said this a few weeks ago. Elections will be held in the next 100 days. So you can do your maths,\u201d Skerrit told his party supporters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This statement was as much information on the election date that the Prime Minister gave,he then went on to heavily lambaste the United Workers Party candidates &#8211; all of them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His first swipe was at the UWP Leader Lennox Linton who he claimed used \u201cpeoples\u201d money to rebuild home in Morne Daniel following Hurricane Maria. \u201cThey Even raised money from you the ordinary people of Dominica. The money raised has gone into the mansion he lives in Morne Daniel\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Skerrit said he was criticized for building a home in Vielle Case but\u2026 \u201ca leader of the Opposition who has not held a job for over twenty plus years rebuilds a mansion from the ravages from Hurricane Maria and no one in this country raises an eyebrow,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Prime Minister said most-if not all- the candidate of the UWP are misfits, agreeing that the most popular candidate in the UWP camp is a youngster \u201cwho will lose his deposit against me in the Vielle Case Constituency\u201d. The prime minister was talking about Clement Marcellin Jr.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The UWP he said has selected some \u201cdownright\u201d bad candidates with many of them having \u2018very unsavory characters\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSam Christian could not be a candidate for the DLP in 2020. Joshua Francis could not be\u2026Vernie who is ashamed to be Dominican could not be\u2026.and I have not gotten yet to Salybia, the poor girl looks lost she cannot relate to half the people in the Carib Territory\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The prime minister finished his speech by advising his followers that labour is a party of peace, &#8220;Let us promote peace and tranquility in our country&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to calls from the crowd in the final moments of his speech requesting the date for the launching of the Roseau central candidate, his wife Melissa Poponne Skerrit, he promised, &#8220;I will tell you soon&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dominica Labour party believes it has what it takes to win the next general elections and to show its confidence, its leader Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said within the next 100 days voters will go to the polls to&#8230;","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":236576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[77,235,9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage","category-homepage-carousel","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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