The Caricom Electoral Observer Mission has concluded that the St Lucia General Elections held on Monday can be considered by any objective standard to have been free and fair and that the results represented the will of the people. According to a Caricom press statement, the Mission was unanimous in its appreciation of the orderly and peaceful manner in which the poll was conducted and they were satisfied with the process as it played out throughout November 28. It also noted the intensity but incident-free nature of the counting of the ballots.
On Elections Day, the Mission organised itself into five teams in order to maximise its resources to cover and monitor as much of the elections process as possible and to make a reasoned judgement of that process based on the observations of the respective teams. They visited all 17 constituencies.
The Observers witnessed the electoral process at work for the opening and closing of the polls, for the casting of
