GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, May 6, CMC -Premier André Ebanks Tuesday led 19 successful politicians to take their oath as legislators as the new coalition government begins the task of running a government in this British Overseas Territory.
Ebanks is leading the newly formed Cayman’s National Coalition For Caymanians (NCFC) after no single party emerged victorious following last Wednesday’s general election.
According two official results, the People’s Progressive Movement (PPM) won seven seats in Parliament, the most out of all parties, but was three short of a majority.
Two newly-formed parties, the Cayman Islands National Party (CINP), founded by a former manager at Ernst & Young, and the Caymanian Community Party (CCP), established by members of the dissolved United People’s Movement (UPM), won four seats each.
Last Friday, the CCP and the CINP announced that three elected members were joining them – giving them a majority of 11 in the 19-seat Parliament – and had approached the Governor Jane Owen to inform her they were ready to form a government.
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