294:, PPM leader Alden McLaughlin stepped down as he was term-limited from serving another term as Premier with then-Minister of Public Finance and Economic Development Roy McTaggart becoming leader and McLaughlin taking the role of chairman. On election night, there were jubilant scenes at the Progressive watch party as the party maintained its seven seats along with a Progressive-aligned independent winning. Both McTaggart and McLaughlin were confident about pulling over the two independent MPs necessary to form a government; however, in the next week, Wayne Panton of the PACT group
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283:. This was the first election to be held after electoral reforms were approved in a 2012 referendum which introduced single member constituencies. The Progressives remained the largest party, winning seven of the nineteen seats. However independents emerged as the largest group in the Legislative Assembly with nine seats. Following negotiations, a coalition government between the Progressives, three Cayman Democratic Party members and two independent members was agreed upon and took office with Alden McLaughlin as
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Through the Party's internal processes, the members chose the candidates to represent the Party and ultimately the people of the Cayman
Islands. The Party got to work and by the next general election in 2005 was able to present a slate of nine candidates all of whom were embraced by the electorate.
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On 12 February 2011, the People's
Progressive Movement became the first political party in the Cayman Islands to transfer leadership. Kurt Tibbetts, the Leader of the Opposition and founder of the PPM, stepped down at the extraordinary conference, passing on the party's top job to Alden McLaughlin.
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A cohesive group of candidates representing a broad and complementary set of skills and experience united under the Party's new leader, Leader of the
Opposition, Alden McLaughlin in 2011. The Party presented plans for creating jobs, building communities and restoring pride in government and the
237:, together with Lucille Seymour and many other "Movers and Shakers", committed to the ideals of principle-led governance, full participatory democracy, the formulation of a national development plan and a long-term vision of where they wanted to take the country.
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with ten of the independents before adding PPM MP Juliana O'Connor-Connolly and another independent on the day he was swore in as
Premier. McTaggart became Leader of the Opposition with a caucus of six Progressives and one independent.
245:, which were by the PPM, who took 9 of the 15 seats in the Legislative Assembly. The first PPM Government took office in May 2005, having been joined by independent candidate for Cayman Brac and Little Cayman,
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joined nine successful
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