Daily Mail reports supporters of Jamaica's first woman prime minister are celebrating after she staged a dramatic comeback with a landslide victory in the general election yesterday.
Portia Simpson Miller, leader of the centre-left People's National Party, tapped in on voter-disillusionment, especially among Jamaica's poorest people, during an energetic election campaign.
PNP party members and their supporters shimmied and shouted in the capital, Kingston, as they heard that the government of Prime Minister Andrew Holness had been defeated national elections.
Simpson Miller is beloved by her supporters for her folksy, plainspoken style and is referred to affectionately as 'Sista P' and 'Comrade Leader.'
She became Jamaica's first female prime minister in March 2006 after she was picked by party delegates when P.J. Patterson retired as leader. But she was tossed out of office a year later in a narrow election defeat.
Yesterday she pledged to lift debt-wracked Jamaica out of poverty, secure foreign investment, and create jobs
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