Sir Allan Fitzgerald Laurent Louisy, KCMG

Order of St Michael and St George

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, PC

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 (September 5, 1916 – March 2, 2011) was the second prime minister of independent St Lucia, following Sir John Compton in office. He was born in Laborie on September 5, 1916, and served as a judge before being elected to parliament in 1974.

In the 1979 general elections

Saint Lucian general election, 1979

General elections were held in Saint Lucia on 2 July 1979. The result was a victory for the Saint Lucia Labour Party, which won twelve of the seventeen seats. Voter turnout was 68.0%.-Results:...

, Louisy became Prime Minister following the Saint Lucia Labour Party

Saint Lucia Labour Party

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 (SLP) victory.

Before the elections, he had made a secret pact to hand over power to fellow representative George Odlum

George Odlum

George William Odlum was a Saint Lucian left-wing politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister. Born in Castries, Odlum studied at Bristol University and Oxford University in the United Kingdom before returning to Saint Lucia as Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Trade...

 within the first six months in power, a deal he broke following pressure from US officials and other allies. This resulted in a split in the Labour Party, provoking a crisis in 1981. He chose to step down. He was succeeded as Prime Minister not by Odlum, but by his attorney-general, Winston Cenac

Winston Cenac

Winston Francis Cenac, Q.C. was a civil servant and politician from Saint Lucia. He was the third elected Prime Minister of independent Saint Lucia....

. Odlum went on to create his own party, the short-lived Saint Lucia Progressive Labour Party

Progressive Labour Party

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. The SLP lost the subsequent 1982 election

Saint Lucian general election, 1982

General elections were held in Saint Lucia on 3 May 1982. The result was a victory for the United Workers Party, which won fourteen of the seventeen seats. Voter turnout was 66.9%.-Results:...

 to Compton's UWP

UWP

-Education:*Campuses of the University of Wisconsin:**The University of Wisconsin–Parkside located in Kenosha, Wisconsin.**The University of Wisconsin–Platteville located in Platteville, Wisconsin.-Politics:...

.

Louisy retired from politics and withdraw to his home in Saphyr Estate, Laborie

Laborie

Laborie is a village on the south coast of Saint Lucia. It was originally called l'Islet a Caret after the Loggerhead sea turtles that were found in the area. The name Laborie is named after Baron de Laborie who was the French governor of Saint Lucia from 1784-1789...

. He was knighted on March 31, 2005.

He died on March 2, 2011, at home.

See also

• St Lucia Labour Party
• Politics of Saint Lucia
  Politics of Saint Lucia
  Politics of Saint Lucia takes place in the framework of an independent parliamentary democratic Commonwealth Realm with Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state, represented by a Governor General, who acts on the advice of the prime minister and the cabinet. The prime minister is the leader of the...
  
  
• List of Prime Ministers of Saint Lucia