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The Premier of the British Virgin Islands is the head of government for the British Virgin Islands. As a British Overseas Territory, the Premier is appointed by the Governor on behalf of the Monarchy of the United Kingdom, currently Queen Elizabeth II.〔(The Virgin Islands Constitution Order 2007 ) (SI 2007/1678)〕 Until 2007, the head of government was known as the Chief Minister.〔(The Virgin Islands (Constitution) Order 1976 ) (SI 1976/2145), as amended by 1979/1603, 1982/151, (1991/2871 ) and (1994/1638 )〕 Since the 1967 constitution was adopted, only five people have served as Premier of Chief Minister, and each of them except for Cyril Romney has served at least two full terms. Lavity Stoutt is the only former leader to have won more than two general elections however (he won five), and Stoutt and Willard Wheatley are the only two former leaders to have served two consecutive full terms (Ralph O'Neal also served two consecutive terms, but the first of those was the remaining part of a term after Stoutt's death). ==List of Chief Ministers and Premiers== To date, only six different people (all men) have held the office of Chief Minister or Premier. Of those six, all except one (Cyril Romney) have been elected to the office on at least two occasions. All six have also served as Leader of the Opposition. The longest serving has been Lavity Stoutt, who was elected as Chief Minister five times (although he only served a small part of his fifth term prior to his death in office) and served as Chief Minister for a total of 16 years, 270 days. Party affiliations are as follows: *DP—VI Democratic Party *NDP—National Democratic Party *UP—United Party (defunct) *VIP—Virgin Islands Party 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Premier of the British Virgin Islands」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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