Bahamas Prime Minister Phillip Davis says the date for the next general election remains a matter of personal timing, even as speculation mounts that the governing Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) may seek a fresh mandate before the constitutional deadline in late 2026.
Davis has all but dismissed the idea that The Bahamas will follow several other Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries—such as Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Suriname, Guyana, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines—in heading to the polls in 2025.
“I’m hearing the talk of early election, but we have a lot of work to do, and we are executing our work, and I have still a number of things to get started before I call an election and when they get started and, on the way, then you can say election is imminent but it’s not imminent now,” Davis told reporters.
“When the election will be called is here in my heart, and I’ll let that be known at the appropriate time,” he added.
The PLP secured a decisive victory in the September 2021 election, winning 32 of the 39 seats in Parliament and ousting the Free National Movement (FNM), which claimed the remaining seven.
Despite recent assertions by FNM leader Michael Pintard that Davis may call a snap election as early as September this year, the Prime Minister has reiterated that the next election will take place within the timeframe outlined by the Constitution.
PLP chairman and Foreign Affairs Minister Fred Mitchell has also dismissed Pintard’s claims of an early poll.
