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following his release in June 1982, John immediately began
working on the formation of a left-wing coalition. In 1983,
Oliver Seraphin's DEMLAB party was incorporated into the DLP,
which in this way - for a short time - reunited. Prior to
the 1985 election, an agreement was reached between DLP,
PLUD, which had emerged as a result of a split in DEMLAB,
and Dominica's Freedom Movement. The leader of the labor
movement, Michael Douglas, stood as the coalition's
candidate.
But in the June 1985 elections, Prime Minister Charles's
Freedom Party, the DFP, achieved 15 of Parliament's 21
seats. During the election campaign, the opposition
requested an investigation into a $ 100,000 donation the
government had received from the CIA for its involvement in
the North American invasion of Grenada.
In 1986, the Chief of Defense was executed, after being
found guilty of murdering a valet during the second coup
attempt against Charles's government.
The third post-independence election also won the
government with 11 of the 21 seats. PLUD under the
leadership of Edison James, who for the first time in a
general election, gained 6 seats and Douglas' Labor Party
got the remaining 4th Leonard Baptist minority party, the
Progressive Force, did not gain representation in
parliament.
The Prime Minister, along with his colleagues James
Mitchell of St. Vincent, John Compton of St. Lucia and
Nicolas Brathwrite from Grenada, an agreement to unite the
four islands. As a result, a Western Caribbean Constituent
Regional Council was established with representation from
governments, from the ecclesiastical sector and from social
organizations.
At its second meeting, which took place in April 1991 in
St. Lucia, the Council reviewed various proposals on how to
organize the distribution of food in the coming nation. The
proposal for integration was manifested in the Chaguaramas
Treaty, which referred to a federation of all
English-speaking communities in the Caribbean. Three
Islands, St. Kitts, Montserrat and Antigua, refused to
participate in the project, and Grenada and St. Lucia also
expressed skepticism. The 7 Eastern Caribbean ministries
have a single National Bank with a single coin base.
In 1991, the government introduced a series of laws
designed to stimulate the national economy, especially with
a view to the agricultural and telecommunications sectors.
In April, the prime minister survived a PLUD mistrust
agenda. At the end of the year, Eugenia Charles sought to
impose a restriction on the right of public servants to
publicly criticize the government.
The government's 1994 decision to expand the number of
bus permits led to demonstrations and riots in Roseau. The
prime minister accused the opposition of trying to pressure
the government to print new elections ahead of time, and the
crisis lasted until the conclusion of an agreement on May 6.
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