'All other prime ministers, including Manley in 1980, were voted out of office by the public, based essentially on their poor and controversial performances,' he said.Д¬rawford also noted that Manley was the only PM who returned after losing a previous election all others left politics or were never voted into office again. These were Alexander Bustamante, Donald Sangster, Hugh Shearer, Michael Manley and Edward Seaga.Д¬rawford noted that Bustamante governed as the first prime minister after Independence, until he became ill and was replaced by Sangster, who died very shortly after assuming the office of prime minister. In breaking down the years, political analyst Richard 'Dickie' Crawford noted that Jamaica has had five prime ministers over a 30-year period from 1962 to 1992. Then along came the debilitating extradition row involving the Golding administration the Opposition PNP and civil society that would send Golding packing at the end of his fourth year in office.ДЄs Golding steps aside, Andrew Holness will take the oath of office, underlining the changes that have been wrought on the political landscape in Jamaica in recent years. Simpson Miller was defeated by the Bruce Golding-led Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in a close electoral contest in September 2007. Patterson's successor, Portia Simpson Miller, who assumed the mantle of leadership in March 2006, spent just 18 months in Jamaica House.

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