Allan Louisy

Allan Louisy was the first Prime Minister of independent Saint Lucia. He was born in Laborie in the year 1916, and served as a judge before representing his district in Parliament. At the end of the 1970s, as leader of the Saint Lucia Labour Party, he supported the anti-independence movement promoted by the union leader George Odlum. In Saint Lucia's first parliamentary elections as an independent country, he won by a landslide, becoming the first elected head of government in the new state's history. He took office on July 2, 1979, but his government was short-lived: on May 4, 1981, after facing the rejection of his budgetary plan and the resignation of important members of his cabinet, he was obliged to resign. Winston Cenac, who had been attorney general, took his place.

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Prime Minister - Saint Lucia - Laborie - 1916 - 1970s - Saint Lucia Labour Party - George Odlum - July 2 - 1979 - May 4 - 1981 - Winston Cenac - Attorney general

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