Said Wilbert Musa is a Belizean lawyer and politician. He was the third prime minister of Belize from 28 August 1998 to 8 February 2008.
The United Democratic Party is one of the two major political parties in Belize. It is currently the main opposition party,having lost the 2020 Belizean general election,after previously holding the government across three prior terms. Founded as a centre-right conservative party,the UDP is led by Moses Barrow.
Sir Manuel Amadeo Esquivel was a Belizean politician. As leader of the United Democratic Party,he served as the second prime minister of Belize from 1984 to 1989,and then again from 1993 to 1998. His party's victory in 1984 was the first time an opposition party had won a general election in Belize.
Ralph Henry Fonseca is a Belizean politician and a member of the People's United Party.
The House of Representatives of Belize is the lower chamber of the National Assembly,the other being the Senate. It was created under the 1981 constitution. Members are commonly called "Area Representatives".
The Senate is the upper chamber of the National Assembly of Belize. It has 13 members appointed for a five-year term by the governor general.
General elections were held in Belize on 5 March 2003. Belizeans elected 29 members to the House of Representatives for a term of five years. The result was a victory for the ruling People's United Party (PUP),which won 22 of the 29 seats.
General elections were held in Belize on 27 August 1998. The result was a victory for the People's United Party,which won 26 of the 29 seats and Said Musa was elected as prime minister for the first time. Voter turnout was 90%,the highest since independence.
The National Alliance for Belizean Rights (NABR),formed as the Patriotic Alliance for Territorial Integrity,was a political party in Belize in the 1990s. The party colour was forest green.
The Leader of the Opposition is an elected official who,according to the Constitution,"commands the support of those elected officials that do not support the Government." The Leader of the Opposition is the leader of the largest political party in the House of Representatives that is not in government.
General elections were held in Belize on 7 February 2008. Beginning with this election,Belizeans elected 31 members to the House of Representatives of Belize instead of 29. In what was considered an upset,the opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) won the election with 25 out of 31 seats;the ruling People's United Party won six.
Dean Russel Lindo was a Belizean attorney and politician. He was one of the principal founders of the United Democratic Party in 1973 and served as its first leader from 1974 to 1979.
A constitutional referendum,the nation's first,was held in Belize on 7 February 2008,coinciding with the 2008 general elections.
Michael Kwame Finnegan is a Belizean politician and a member of the United Democratic Party. He served as Minister of Housing and Urban Development in Prime Minister Dean Barrow's cabinet. He was a member of the House of Representatives,representing the Mesopotamia Electoral Division in Belize City from 1993 to 2020. Finnegan hosts the television show Mek Wave and Lik Road.
Francis William Fonseca is a Belizean politician who served as leader of the People's United Party (PUP) and as Leader of the Opposition of Belize from 2011 to 2016. First elected to the Belize House of Representatives from the Belize City-based Freetown constituency in 2003,Fonseca served as Attorney General and Minister of Education,Culture and Labour in Prime Minister Said Musa's cabinet until February 2008,when the PUP lost the general election to the opposition United Democratic Party (UDP). Fonseca was one of only six PUP representatives nationwide to retain his seat in the National Assembly in the 2008 election.
Patrick Jason Faber is a Belizean politician. He was the leader of the Opposition. He formerly served as the minister of Education,Youth Sports and Culture. In July 2020 he was appointed the leader of the United Democratic Party,after Prime Minister Dean Barrow stated his plans to retire at the end of his term.
Wilfred Peter "Sedi" Elrington is a Belizean politician who has been the Foreign Minister of Belize since 2008.
John Birchman Saldivar is a Belizean politician. A member of the United Democratic Party,Saldivar has represented the Belmopan constituency in the Belize House of Representatives from its creation in 2008 until his defeat in the 2020 general election. He was previously Area Representative for Cayo South.
General elections were held in Belize on 4 November 2015 to elect members of the House of Representatives. On 28 September 2015 Prime Minister Dean Barrow announced that he had advised the Governor-General to dissolve the National Assembly and to fix Wednesday 4 November 2015 as the date for the next general elections.
General elections were held in Belize on 11 November 2020 to elect the 31 members of the House of Representatives. Nomination day was 21 October.
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