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Helen Pidd in Bridgetown, Barbados

Barbados PM Mia Mottley who broke with Queen wins landslide second term

Mia Mottley casts her vote in St Michael, Barbados.
Mia Mottley casts her vote in St Michael, Barbados. Photograph: Nigel R Browne/Reuters

Mia Mottley, who shot to international fame during the Cop26 climate talks and oversaw Barbados’s break with the Queen last year, has won a second term as the Caribbean nation’s prime minister.

The 56-year-old’s Barbados Labour party (BLP) won all 30 seats, repeating her clean sweep of 2018, in an election marred by complaints that thousands of Covid-positive Bajans were denied a vote.

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