Parliamentary elections that month saw a high turnout of 84% and a narrow win for the Progressive National Party, which took eight seats to the People's Democratic Movement's seven.

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Prime Minister Michael Misick resigned under pressure from critics within his Progressive National Party, and was succeeded briefly by his former home minister, Galmo Williams, before the governor suspended the post.

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Theodore Roosevelt ran for President in 1912 on a Progressive Party platform calling for a national system of social insurance.

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