{"id":12817,"date":"2018-02-24T22:28:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T02:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=12817"},"modified":"2018-02-24T23:40:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T03:40:26","slug":"prime-minister-gaston-browne-announces-date-for-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/prime-minister-gaston-browne-announces-date-for-general-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Gaston Browne announces date for general election"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Antiguans will go to the poll on March 21 Prime Minister Gaston Browne has announced at a campaign event of his party tonight.<\/p>

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Parliament will be dissolved on Monday 26 February the writ of the election will be issued the following day.<\/p>\n

He did not indicate when nomination day will be.<\/p>

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Browne said he was calling the election more than a year early because he believes\u00a0his government has performed.<\/p>

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The ABLP leader told supporters that 2018 is the year when many promised and new projects will start both in Antigua and the hurricane-ravaged sister isle Barbuda.<\/p>\n

“What this country needs right now are ability and continuity,” Browne said.<\/p>

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“To make any change would be to reverse the gains that we have made,” he added.<\/p>\n

The ABLP leader called on supporters not to take the election for granted.<\/p>

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He urged them to go out in numbers “to get the vote out on election day.”<\/p>

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