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Dr Kei­th Row­ley has an­nounced his plans to for­mal­ly re­sign as Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), ef­fec­tive Thurs­day, May 1, 2025.

On Jan­u­ary 6, 2025, Dr. Row­ley pub­licly in­di­cat­ed his in­ten­tion to step down, stat­ing, “On Jan­u­ary 06, 2025 I in­di­cat­ed my in­ten­tion to step down as Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment with the par­ty hold­ing a con­ven­tion to elect a new Po­lit­i­cal Leader in Sep­tem­ber.”

In March, on his fi­nal day as Prime Min­is­ter, Dr. Row­ley re­it­er­at­ed this de­ci­sion, not­ing that al­though his term as Po­lit­i­cal Leader legal­ly runs un­til 2026, “it was my in­ten­tion to va­cate this po­si­tion at the ear­li­est op­por­tu­ni­ty in con­sul­ta­tion with the Lead­er­ship of the Move­ment.” He for­mal­ly demit­ted of­fice as Prime Min­is­ter on March 16, 2025.