Now that the campaign dust has settled, the bright lights of virtual and drive-in rallies dimmed, and a winner has emerged, there is understandable euphoria on the part of supporters of the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP).

After a resounding rejection at the polls under the leadership of Perry Christie in 2017, the PLP is again assuming the mantle of governance.

Voters rejected the scare tactics employed by the outgoing Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis, who called an election at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, eight months before one was constitutionally due.

Minnis, who appeared increasingly desperate and unstable in his position over the last few weeks, warned voters that Davis would lead The Bahamas back to a dark past, and the PLP would erode economic gains.

Meanwhile, one of his ministers, Elsworth Johnson, repeatedly told rally-goers that a number of PLP candidates were accused child molesters.

The signs of desperation were all there.

The widespread angst toward Minnis was evident. His administration had long lost favor with the Bahamian people.

Davis becomes the fifth prime minister of an independent Bahamas as voters, many of them angry over and disillusioned by the Minnis administration’s management of the people’s business, have decided to do what they have done for the past nearly two decades: change government.

The Free National Movement (FNM) is now left with determining how best to pick up the pieces, settle into opposition and decide on the leadership question.

This defeat falls squarely at the feet of Minnis, whose disregard and disrespect for the Bahamian people in many instances, and whose heavy-handed and arrogant approach to governance had long sealed his fate and that of his party.

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