Everything about William Alexander Scott totally explained
William Alexander "Alex" Scott JP, MP (born
1940) is a politician in
Bermuda who is the
MP for the
Warwick South East constituency. Between 2003 and 2006 he served as the
Premier of Bermuda and leader of the
Progressive Labour Party (PLP).
Scott's political career began in 1985 when he was appointed to the
Senate; in 1989, he was promoted to Opposition Leader in the Senate. In 1993 he successfully ran for Parliament for the Warwick East constituency. In 1998, during the PLP's unprecedented win in Parliament, he was appointed to Cabinet as the Minister of Works & Engineering. Perhaps the most memorable event of his term was the construction of a new high school campus for the Berkeley Institute, a project with suffered significant overruns, contracting irregularities and work delays.
He was appointed Premier (and, thus, leader of the PLP) on
29 July 2003. The party had been re-elected in that year's parliamentary elections, but its leader, Dame
Jennifer Meredith Smith, was overthrown hours after the election results were certified when a schism in the elected members of the party surfaced. With the two sides split 13 members each, Smith agreed to step aside with Scott as the compromise leader.
The hallmarks of his premiership were the promotion of a Social Agenda and the launch of an unpopular drive for Independence from the
UK. Supporters believed he wished to spread Bermuda's wealth amongst the population, while critics charged that the Scott administration was racially divisive, autocratic, and lacked accountability.
Scott was never successful in unifying the factions in the party and he was ousted, by a vote of 107-76, in a leadership challenge by his Deputy Premier, Dr.
Ewart Brown, during a PLP delegates conference on
October 27 2006.
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