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'''Sir Allan Fitzgerald Laurent Louisy''' (born [[September 5]], [[1916]]) was the second [[Prime Minister]] of independent [[Saint Lucia]]. The first Prime Minister of St. Lucia was Sir John Compton. Sir Allan Louisy was born in [[Laborie, Saint Lucia|Laborie]] on [[September 5]], [[1916]], and served as a judge before representing his district in Parliament. At the end of the 1970s, as leader of the [[Saint Lucia Labour Party]], he supported the anti-independence movement promoted by the union leader [[George Odlum]]. In Saint Lucia's first parliamentary elections as an independent country, he won by a landslide, becoming the first elected head of government in the new state's history. He took office on [[July 2]], [[1979]], but his government was short-lived: on [[May 4]], [[1981]], after facing the rejection of his budgetary plan and the resignation of important members of his cabinet, he was obliged to resign. [[Winston Cenac]], who had been [[attorney general]], took his place.
He was awarded a knighthood on March 31st 2005 in recognition of a life of long and meritorious public service to his nation and the Caribbean.
==See also==
* [[Saint Lucia Labour Party]]
* [[Politics of Saint Lucia]]
* [[List of Prime Ministers of Saint Lucia]]
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