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Politics of Anguilla
Politics of Anguilla
takes place in a framework of a
parliamentary
representative democratic
dependency
, whereby the Chief Minister is the
head of government
, and of a
multi-party system
.
Anguilla
, the most northerly of the
Leeward Islands
in the
Lesser Antilles
, is an internally self-governing
overseas territory
of the
United Kingdom
. The
United Nations
Committee on Decolonization includes Anguilla on the
United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories
. The territory's constitution is Anguilla Constitutional Order 1 April 1982 (amended 1990).
Executive power
is exercised by the Chief Minister and the Executive Council.
Legislative power
is vested in both the Executive Council and the
House of Assembly
. The
Judiciary
is independent of the executive and the legislature. Military defence is the responsibility of the
United Kingdom
.
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