Despite the record low voter turnout for the January 19, 2022 general election, Barbadians have spoken, and they have returned Prime Minister Mia Mottley and her 29-member team to the House of Assembly with all 30 electoral seats.Though the main opposition, the Democratic Labour Party (DLP), had a slightly better showing in actual votes, it was another crushing defeat that has sent the Dems back to their George Street, St Michael headquarters to ponder for presumably the next five years.The election win has provided the Mottley-led Barbados Labour Party (BLP) with the confidence the party leader said she required to make critical decisions that will affect our population.“I need for us to unite around a common cause, unite behind a single Government, unite behind a single leader and let us unite to fight the threats to our safety, our development and our prosperity,” Mottley said in her address to the country, vowing to “whoever emerges as this leader”.
