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However, Information Minister Daryl Vaz said on local radio that the decision about the prime minister’s upcoming resignation was final.Įducation Minister Andrew Holness, also from the Labour Party, dominated a poll conducted earlier this year asking islanders who should lead the Caribbean country if Golding were to step down. Later in the day, party chairman Mike Henry said the central executive voted to reject Golding’s decision to resign as party leader. “He feels the chances of the party winning the next elections are at a disadvantage with him at the head, but there’s no questioning of his competence,” Meadows said. “(Golding) said the challenges of the last four years have taken their toll and it was appropriate now to make way for new leadership to continue the programmes of economic recovery and transformation while mobilizing the party for victory in the next general elections,” the statement said.ĭennis Meadows, a senator and member of the Jamaica Labour Party’s executive committee, said there has been an “overwhelming response” for Golding to stay on as party leader. The 63-year-old Golding is a veteran lawmaker who was expected to lead his party into the 2012 general elections. It said Golding informed its central executive committee of his decision at a quarterly meeting in the capital of Kingston. The announcement was made in a brief statement credited to Golding and the party.
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The party’s leader automatically becomes the prime minister. Golding would resign once a new leader of the Jamaica Labour Party is elected, expected at an annual general conference in November. JAMAICA’S GOVERNING party has announced that Prime Minister Bruce Golding will step down as leader in the coming weeks, possibly averting a rebellion from ruling party members that could have led to his ousting.