ROSEAU, Dominica, Jul 23, CMC -Anette Sanford put aside the disappointment of not becoming Dominica’s first head of state when she swept to victory Monday night in the Kalinago election, becoming the first woman to be elected a Chief for the Territory.
Last October, Sanford, 41, a former opposition United Workers Party (UWP) legislator, had been named by former opposition leader, Jesma Paul Victor, as the opposition nominee to replace the then outgoing president Charles Savarin that year.
Sanford, like the government nominee, 58-year-old Sylvanie Burton, is from the Kaliangoo Territory, where the descendants of the country’s indigenous people, the Caribs, still resides.
According to the preliminary results released here on Monday night, Sanford polled 693 votes with her closest rival, Natashs Zandra Green, receiving 272.
Among those defeated was Casius Darroux, a former parliamentary representative for the Kalinago Territory, who received 162 votes.
(Details in Politics section)
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