Parliamentary elections that month saw a high turnout of 84% and a narrow win for the ProgressiveNationalParty, which took eight seats to the People's Democratic Movement's seven.
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Prime Minister Michael Misick resigned under pressure from critics within his ProgressiveNationalParty, and was succeeded briefly by his former home minister, Galmo Williams, before the governor suspended the post.
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Theodore Roosevelt ran for President in 1912 on a ProgressiveParty platform calling for a national system of social insurance.