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Politics of Jamaica. Politics in Jamaica takes place in the framework of a representative parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The 1962 Constitution of Jamaica established a parliamentary system whose political and legal traditions closely follow those of the United Kingdom.
The two main political parties are the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the People’s National Party (PNP), and between them they have dominated legislative elections since the country’s independence, to the virtual exclusion of any third party.
May 6, 2023 · Collin Reid/Associated Press. By Emiliano Rodríguez Mega. May 6, 2023. As King Charles III put on the centuries-old St. Edward’s crown on Saturday, Jamaica, a Commonwealth member, continued to...
- Emiliano Rodríguez Mega
Sep 3, 2020 · The centre-right Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) won 49 of 63 seats in Thursday's parliamentary election. Prime Minister Andrew Holness called for the early vote last month in what analysts saw as a...
A report by Freedom House on Jamaica's political rights and civil liberties in 2021. It covers topics such as elections, corruption, violence, LGBT+ rights, and COVID-19 restrictions.
Sep 13, 2022 · The ties to the monarchy in Jamaica run deep, ingrained into the island's politics, history, institutions and constitution. And while attitudes over allegiance or being considered "loyal...
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General elections were held in Jamaica on Thursday, 3 September 2020 [1] to elect 63 members of Parliament. As the constitution stipulates a five-year parliamentary term, [2] the next elections were not expected until between 25 February and 10 June 2021.
