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Ian Ives
There’ll be a new Jamaica Labour Party, JLP, standard-bearer in South Manchester for the upcoming general election.
Businessman Ian Ives defeated the incumbent member of parliament, MP, Robert Chin, in a selection exercise on Sunday.
Ives won 54% of votes among party workers, compared to 35% of votes that went to Chin and 10% claimed by Adion Peart.
Peart is the nephew of former People’s National Party, PNP, MPs Dean and Michael Peart.
Chin, the first term MP, had defeated the PNP’s Michael Stewart by 890 votes in the 2020 general election.
But his time in the constituency has been turbulent. In the lead up to Sunday’s selection exercise, JLP councillor for the Grove Town division in the constituency, Iceval ‘Cherry’ Brown, was heard in a leaked recording urging labourites to support Ives in the selection exercise.
She was heard in the recording offering someone $5,000 to vote for Ives.
Responding to the leaked recording, Chin told Nationwide News he’s focused on the upcoming general elections as he tried to rally support in the constituency.
Robert Chin, speaking with Nationwide News last week.
With Chin set to be ousted, Ives will have the task of retaining South Manchester for the JLP. He’ll face the formidable challenge of PNP heavyweight Peter Bunting in the traditionally safe PNP seat.
Bunting was beaten in Central Manchester by political neophyte Rhoda Moy Crawford in 2020.
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