Barbados declares itself a republic and will relinquish the presidency of Queen Elizabeth at the beginning of XNUMX

Barbados declares itself a republic and will relinquish the presidency of Queen Elizabeth at the beginning of XNUMX 

The Barbados authorities intend to declare the country a republic beginning in 2021, and will no longer recognize Queen Elizabeth II as head of state.

“It is time to put our colonial past behind us,” the governor said before the opening of the parliamentary session. The people of Barbados want the President of the State of Barbados... Barbados will take the next logical step towards full sovereignty that the country becomes a republic on the day of the celebration of the fifty-fifth anniversary of our independence... After we gained independence more than half a century ago, our country can never doubt its ability to self-govern. .

Barbados gained independence in 1966, but the Queen still heads the country.

Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain is the head of the Commonwealth of Nations and the current queen of 15 independent countries: Australia, Antigua, Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Grenada, Canada, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Jamaica.

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