The Legislative Assembly of the Cayman Islands is the unicameral legislature of the British Overseas Territory of the Cayman Islands. It is composed of 18 members; 15 elected members for a four-year term in two-seat constituencies and three members ex-officio under the Constitution of 2009.
In the elections of 8 November 2000, with a turnout of 80% only non-partisans were elected. After the election, conservative members of parliament formed the United Democratic Party.
The social democratic People's Progressive Movement formed in response and won the subsequent subsequent election on 11 May 2005 and resumed office until May 2009.
Following the 2009 general election the United Democratic Party took back office and the People's Progressive Movement returned to the opposition.
Read more about Legislative Assembly Of The Cayman Islands: History, Results
Famous quotes containing the words legislative, assembly and/or islands:
“However much we may differ in the choice of the measures which should guide the administration of the government, there can be but little doubt in the minds of those who are really friendly to the republican features of our system that one of its most important securities consists in the separation of the legislative and executive powers at the same time that each is acknowledged to be supreme, in the will of the people constitutionally expressed.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“What are the islands to me
if you are lost
what is Naxos, Tinos, Andros,
and Delos, the clasp
of the white necklace?”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)