Saint Lucia, general elections underway

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This Monday, December 1st general elections are underway in Saint Lucia, where more than 179 thousand people are expected to vote. Our correspondent Belen de los Santos brings us more details. teleSUR

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00:00This Monday, December 1st, general elections are underway in St Lucia where more than 179,000

00:07people are expected to vote.

00:09Our correspondent Belén de los Santos is there and is going to bring us more details

00:12right now.

00:13Ale, exactly as we were saying, we are here in St Lucia at this moment.

00:19This is North Castries, the north of the St Lucia capital and the voting is underway.

00:26It has been so since 6.30 a.m.

00:29So we are here, we continue to just go over the different districts where this election

00:36is taking place.

00:37Let's recall, it's 17 seats to parliament and the majority gets to elect the PM.

00:44The leader of the majority gets to be the PM.

00:47And the incumbent prime minister, Philippe Pierre, has called the selections in order to try to

00:53renew the mandate.

00:54We are having closely following also the activity in the streets.

00:59We've been seeing and probably you've shared it already on screen.

01:03A lot of activism for both parties, but a lot of presence, at least in this area where we

01:10are now in Castries and in Grossesled, both very important districts, Castries is divided

01:17into a few different sectors.

01:20A lot of activism in favor of the Labour Party, the St Lucia Labour Party.

01:26We were recalling before some of the most important issues that brought this, well, the government

01:33to this election had to do with a lot of the achievements that were conquered during this

01:39time.

01:39And that is why the prime minister considered that this was a good time to call for this

01:44election in order to obtain that majority.

01:48Once again, let's recall that 2021 was the last victory.

01:53The country and the world in general was just coming out of COVID.

01:57There was a big mandate to restabilize the economy, to boost growth again.

02:05And that's what many are reporting that happened in different sectors in health, in education, with

02:13specific plans targeted to the youth in general, and also being able to target several challenges

02:21that are challenges that are common to the region as a whole.

02:25And the proposition, the ideas of the now government party was to try to face those challenges with

02:35more social programs, with a bet on putting the people first and strengthening those social

02:42aids in order to boost growth.

02:44And the numbers were there.

02:46We actually were speaking to the prime minister yesterday.

02:50We had some statements that were also in the screen of Tell Us Your English.

02:54And he was highlighting this on the opposition.

02:57We have the United Workers Party with a possible prime minister, a candidate prime minister that

03:04already took that functions up until 2021 and had a completely different view of the economy

03:13and the way which to those goals with a huge look and efforts put on the private sector.

03:21So basically in this election, the people are choosing where to head next if they're going to consolidate

03:29this model that is focused on this social programs, for example, installing the national minimum wage or if

03:39they're going back to the policies of the UWP, the opposition party.

03:46We will be seeing what is happening in the coming hours.

03:49Polls will be open until 6 p.m.

03:52So stay tuned here to have all the information.

03:55Ale, I go back to you now.

03:58Thank you, Will.

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