The proposal has sparked a debate about the appropriate balance between work and play in a country where tourism accounts for more than 10% of gross domestic product, compared with less than 3% of U.S. GDP, and employs about one in 10 people.

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Reasons given are the increasing automation and higher technological requirements in almost any workplace, so that a certain, less educated percentage of the workforce simply is not able to find appropriate work any more.

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He believes a more consensual form of government is the most appropriate for the island and hopes all the members of the new house will work together to achieve this, no matter what their views.

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