Good night to all who call our Mother of Valleys and Volcanoes home. I wish to begin with an unequivocal message to Roosevelt Skerrit – one that is clear, deliberate, and impossible to misunderstand. My message is not delivered lightly, nor is it motivated by politics as usual. It is grounded in principle, in law, and in the fundamental democratic rights of the people of Dominica.
Our nation stands at a critical moment. The decisions made now will determine not only the credibility of the next election, but the legitimacy of governance itself. Democracy does not rest on declarations of authority or the timing of political convenience. It rests on consent, freely given, transparently measured, and lawfully verified.
The people of Dominica are watching. The region iwill be watching. And the world will be watching. Any action taken that undermines the integrity of our electoral system will be met with lawful, organized, and unwavering resistance from our population that will be determined to defend its right to a free, fair, and credible vote.
This is not a threat. It is a statement of reality. Legitimacy cannot be forced, announced, or assumed – it must be earned through respect for democratic standards and the rule of law.
What follows is not rhetoric. It is my notice.
Rossevelt Skerrit, any election you call that is conducted on an incomplete, inaccurate and unverified voters list will not be recognized as legitimate, as it would fail to accurately reflect the will of the electorate.
Democracy must be founded on a complete, accurate and properly verified voters list, a standard you have publicly acknowledged. By initiating the process to create a new voters list, you and your administration have recognized that the existing list is inadequate and requires updating.
Despite this acknowledgment and responsibility by you and your administration, the verification and completion process only began in October 2025, more than two years after you first had the opportunity to act.
By calling an election before the completion of this essential work, which was initiated by you and your administration, you would be engaging in illegal conduct and demonstrating a deliberate and willful disregard for the democratic process and the people’s right to a free, fair, and credible election.
The responsibility is yours, and yours alone. An election cannot, and will not, be recognized as legitimate unless the voters list is complete, accurate, and properly verified, plain and simple. Proceeding under any other circumstances would amount to you and your administration further undermining Dominica’s democracy, which is already at the center of a serious national crisis.
If you choose to still go forward with an election, the people of Dominica will exercise their constitutional rights through peaceful civic action. The Dominica Reform Party will organize demonstrations, marches, public presence, economic measures, and community exchange, which are fully lawful and constitute legitimate forms of democratic resistance. These actions will show the electorate exercising its rights to hold the government accountable, without breaking any law.
If you insist on calling an election before the voters list is complete, accurate, and properly verified, you will trigger sustained, lawful civic resistance that will place unprecedented pressure on your administration on a scale you have never experienced.
And if you declare yourself the winner under these conditions, the situation will only escalate. Public pressure will intensify, opposition will grow stronger, and peaceful civic action will continue every day until you resign. A claimed victory under these circumstances will not end the crisis; it will deepen it.
ECONOMIC PRESSURE
The Dominica Reform Party will organize with our people of Dominica to apply lawful economic pressure. We will reduce discretionary spending, purchase only essential goods and services, and coordinate consumer boycotts of businesses connected to you and your administration, by every lawful means available. These actions will be peaceful, organized, and grounded in the rights of our people to choose how and where they spend their money.
As consumer spending decreases, VAT and other government revenues will inevitably decline -not through any breach of the law, but through the conscious, lawful decisions of our people to withhold financial support from practices and businesses that choose to associate with a government undermining democratic accountability. This pressure will be sustained and continuous until you resign.
The Dominica Reform Party will stand shoulder to shoulder with our people of Dominica to build strong, community-based systems where neighbours trade, share, and barter to exchange goods, services, and skills directly with one another. This is about everyday people supporting each other, buying local, helping one another, and keeping resources within our communities instead of relying on the centralized government system.
PUBLIC SERVICES
The Dominica Reform Party will encourage our people to demand that every public service be invoked and delivered in a timely, lawful, and professional manner. We will no longer tolerate delay, neglect, excuses, or bureaucratic obstruction. The moment an election is announced under these conditions, patience ends.
From that point forward, every mechanism of public service will be activated continuously, persistently, and without pause. Requests will be filed. Complaints will be lodged. Follow‑ups will be demanded. Statutory obligations will be invoked every day, all day, until broken systems are fixed and ignored duties are fulfilled. This will be deliberate. This will be organized. This will not stop.
Your ministries, departments, agencies, and constituency offices will be lawfully flooded with demands for action. Communities across Dominica will assert their rights and insist that government responsibilities-those that fall directly under your administration-are met in full. Every unresolved issue that is ignored will generate additional correspondence, escalating documentation, and growing public exposure.
Make no mistake: every administrative delay carries a cost. Every unanswered request consumes staff time. Every unresolved matter drains government resources. Every failure to act on complaints compounds pressure on an already strained system.
From potholes and broken water mains to overflowing garbage, malfunctioning streetlights, blocked drains, unfinished road repairs, and any other public service failure, our people will call in every issue, demand it be fixed, and follow up relentlessly. What your administration seeks to avoid through deliberate inaction will be repaid through overload, inefficiency, and relentless public accountability.
This is not disorder. This is civic enforcement. When our people’s democratic standards are ignored, our people will respond by exercising every right available to them, within the law, within the system, and directly within your sphere of responsibility.
The message is clear: Call an election without a legitimate voters list, and the full weight of public demand will follow, unceasing, organized, and impossible to ignore-until accountability is restored and you resign.
This is grassroots power in action. It makes clear that democracy does not flow from government offices downward-it rises from the people upward. When our people act together, peacefully and lawfully, the economic consequences for you and your government will be real, measurable, and impossible to ignore.
PUBLIC PRESENCE
Alongside these measures, the Dominica Reform Party and our people will hold multiple and endless peaceful demonstrations and marches in public spaces, including near government offices, institutions and residential areas.
We will organize peaceful, lawful demonstrations in locations where arriving cruise ships dock, ensuring that international passengers and visitors, and media witnesses can see the depth of public dissatisfaction with any election conducted on an incomplete, inaccurate, and unverified voters list.
These demonstrations will be highly visible, disciplined, and respectful, designed to communicate clearly to the world that the people of Dominica do not consent to elections that bypass the necessary legal and democratic safeguards.
By making our position visible to the international community, we will reinforce that continued disregard for credible elections and public trust has consequences that extend beyond domestic borders.
SOCIAL MEDIA
The Dominica Reform Party and the people of Dominica will occupy and flood the digital world with discipline, coordination, and resolve, ensuring that the world cannot ignore the depth and persistence of public dissatisfaction with any illegitimate claim to the Prime Minister’s seat.
Every online platform will be used strategically and continuously to document events, amplify voices, and expose every step taken by you and your government to bypass democratic standards.
This effort will be driven largely by the youth of Dominica – organized, relentless, and digitally fluent-who will ensure that the narrative is not controlled by state messaging, but by the lived reality of our people.
From social media to international forums, our people’s presence will be sustained day after day, making it clear that attempts to claim legitimacy without consent will be met with constant public scrutiny and global visibility.
COALITION FOR LEGITIMACY, ELECTORAL ACCOUNTABILITY. AND REFORM (C.L.E.A.R.)
In addition to domestic measures, we will formally appeal to every foreign government, regional bodies such as CARICOM and the OECS, and other international democratic partners to stop their economic, trade, and aid relationships with Dominica until you resign from office.
Just as your administration has chosen to align itself with external policies such as “One China,” we will now activate C.L.E.A.R., the Coalition for Legitimacy, Electoral Accountability, and Reform, to subject you and your illegitimate government to sustained international scrutiny and pressure until democratic legitimacy in Dominica is restored when you are forced to resign.
This is not a call for interference in our domestic affairs, but a clear demand that countries and international organizations withhold cooperation, suspend aid, and pause trade arrangements that directly support an illegitimate Prime Minister and a government operating without the consent of the people of Dominica. The world must see that leadership maintained without legitimacy cannot be supported, recognized, or rewarded, and that continued backing of such a government comes at the cost of credibility, trust, and international accountability.
C.L.E.A.R. will leave your administration isolated on the international stage, making it clear that leadership maintained without legitimacy cannot command the trust or support of regional or global partners. As scrutiny from foreign governments, international organizations, and democratic observers intensifies, the gaps in transparency and accountability within your administration will be exposed.
The world will see that a government ignoring the principles of fair and credible elections risks not only its reputation but its ability to engage meaningfully in regional and global decision-making. In short, C.L.E.A.R. will ensure that Dominica’s democratic deficit becomes impossible to ignore and that any attempt to maintain authority without legitimacy comes at the cost of international isolation and diminished influence.
LEGAL CHALLENGES
Should you proceed to declare victory in an election conducted before the voters list is fully completed, accurate and properly verified, we will challenge the legitimacy of that election through the courts.
The legal grounds for this challenge are clear: failure to follow prescribed electoral procedures, compromising the integrity of the vote, and breach of your publicly acknowledged obligation to ensure a complete and accurate voters list.
Any claim of victory under these circumstances cannot be considered legitimate, and we will pursue all lawful avenues to ensure that our people’s right to a fair and credible election is upheld.
We will seek judicial review or constitutional intervention to prevent an outcome that ignores established legal and democratic standards. This challenge is not merely procedural; it is a defence of the democratic principles of Dominica.
By exercising these legal rights, we affirm that elections must reflect the true will of the people, and that attempts to shortcut or bypass the proper safeguards will be rigorously contested in every lawful forum available.
Election Legitimacy Depends on a Complete Voters List: Under constitutional principles and the Electoral Act, elections must be free, fair, and transparent, with only eligible voters properly registered. Deliberately holding an election on an incomplete and unverified voters list undermines fundamental democratic standards and provides clear grounds for judicial review and constitutional challenge. Any election conducted without a complete and properly verified list cannot accurately reflect the will of the people.
Prime Minister’s Acknowledgment Creates Responsibility: Since you have publicly acknowledged that a new voters list is necessary and have initiated its creation, calling an election before the list is fully completed would constitute a deliberate breach of these legal and constitutional obligations, further undermining the integrity of the electoral process.
Timing of the Election vs. Statutory Limits: You are not legally required to call another election until December 2027. Holding an election prematurely, before the voters list has been completed and verified, will therefore be challenged because it violates statutory timing requirements and the conditions necessary for a lawful vote.
Any attempt to move forward before this time would be considered acting in bad faith and inconsistent with the legal framework governing the conduct of elections. knowingly proceeding under these conditions would be illegal and criminal under election laws. Such conduct would be considered fraud, misconduct in public office, and a violation of election integrity statutes, and it demonstrates a deliberate disregard for the rights of the electorate and the principles of free and fair elections.
A Call for Judicial Review: Any election called before the voters list is completed, accurate, and properly verified would be subject to judicial review and a constitutional challenge. Legal grounds for such action include the failure to follow prescribed electoral procedures, compromising the integrity of the vote, and breaching the Prime Minister’s publicly acknowledged obligations to ensure a complete and accurate voters list. These factors create a strong basis for legal recourse to protect the integrity of the electoral process.
Public Confidence & Democratic Principles: An election conducted under these circumstances cannot reflect the true will of the people. Courts and electoral oversight bodies recognize that public confidence in the electoral process is essential to legitimacy. Demonstrating systemic deficiencies and disregard for public trust strengthens any legal challenge and reinforces the people’s right to contest the election peacefully and lawfully.
Lawful Civic Action Does Not Imply Illegality: The people of Dominica retain the constitutional right to apply sustained, lawful civic and economic pressure in response to democratic violations. Peaceful protests, marches, public assemblies, coordinated consumer boycotts, withdrawal of discretionary spending, lawful non‑cooperation, and the creation of community‑based exchange systems are legitimate and protected forms of democratic resistance.
These actions are not illegal. They reflect the conscious and lawful decision of the electorate to withhold economic participation from a government whose mandate is in serious dispute. Through strictly lawful means, the objective is to financially suffocate the government-that is, to reduce state revenue streams generated through voluntary consumer activity-until it is compelled to do what is right: restore electoral integrity, transparency, and respect for democratic accountability.
This form of non‑violent economic pressure has been used globally to force governments to correct abuses without resorting to unrest, illegality, or coercion. It is a lawful, disciplined, and sustained response by a population exercising its constitutional rights.
The games are over. The Dominica Reform Party is not the United Workers Party, who tried to use our courts to convince us to overlook their own political failures by pretending to present weak arguments and half‑hearted efforts. We are not here to perform legitimacy—we are here to enforce it.
The Dominica Reform Party will fight without retreat and without compromise to defend the people of Dominica and their fundamental right to a free, fair, and democratic electoral system.
Let there be no confusion: any election called or declaration of victory issued based on an incomplete, inaccurate, or unverified voters list will be treated as illegitimate. We will challenge it immediately and relentlessly, using every available legal avenue, institutional process, and oversight mechanism, both domestically and internationally.
Do not underestimate us. Do not misread our resolve. The Dominica Reform Party is serious, disciplined, and fully committed to this fight. We will not be delayed, distracted, or deterred.
Legitimacy cannot be manufactured, declared, or forced-it must be earned. And if it is not, it will be challenged until democratic accountability is restored, when you are forced to resign.
And every day that our people are forced to sacrifice their income, their peace, and their time to stand in protest before the world, that responsibility rests squarely with you. These actions are not chosen lightly – they are compelled by your decisions.
You chose to advance an election with an incomplete, inaccurate, and unverified voters list. You chose to cling to power through a system that has repeatedly failed to command public confidence.
The people will bear the cost of resistance because we understand that meaningful change requires sacrifice.
The Dominica Reform Party and our people of Dominica are prepared to endure any hardship to rebuild our nation on stronger foundations – with accountable leadership, direct democratic participation, and institutions that serve the people rather than entrench power.
We will make clear to you and your administration that illegitimate governments will not exist in our presence. No government can indefinitely govern against its people – not when trust collapses, investment declines, tourism hesitates, and the world is watching. Your administrative power does not come from holding office; it comes from our people, and that power will be withdrawn, and you will eventually resign.
If you wish to remain as the elected leader of Dominica, then win the election fairly and respectfully. We have no objection to your leadership when the process is transparent, credible, and reflects the true will of the people.
Should you achieve a legitimate victory under these conditions, we will be the first to accept the results, congratulate you, and recognize your leadership. Our opposition is not personal; it is rooted in the principle that elections must be conducted properly. Only a fair election can earn the respect and consent of the Dominica Reform Party and our people. The responsibility for what follows rests entirely with you.
