Video: MP Curtis Dickinson Announces Candidacy
[Updated] PLP MP Curtis Dickinson is holding a press conference this afternoon [April 29], and we will have additional coverage later on and in the meantime the live video is below.
Update: Mr Dickinson announced that he will stand as the PLP leader
As we noted earlier, “Mr Dickinson is the Member of Parliament for Constituency 21 Pembroke South East and previously served as the Minister of Finance. He also contested the party’s leadership in 2022, when delegates selected David Burt to continue as leader, with 97 delegates voting in support of Premier Burt, while 56 voted for Mr Dickinson. In the 2016 leadership election for the PLP, David Burt defeated Dennis Lister by 39 votes to 35 votes.”
Jason Hayward has also announced his candidacy for leader of the PLP. As the PLP currently forms the Government of Bermuda, the PLP Leader becomes the Premier, and the election of a leader of the Progressive Labour Party is an internal process defined in its constitution. The PLP Leadership election takes place every four years and the next one is scheduled to be held in October of this year.
