Peter David (politician)

Template:Short description Charles Peter David (born 1957) is a Grenadian politician. He is a member of the House of Representatives from the Town of Saint George's constituency, and served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from July 2008 to November 2010. He subsequently served as Minister of Tourism until he resigned from the Cabinet on April 30, 2012.

Political career

David was elected to the House of Representatives as an NDC candidate from the Town of St. George in the November 2003 general election. The New National Party (NNP), the governing party, repeatedly went to court in attempts to prevent David from serving in Parliament, arguing that he is a citizen of Canada and thus ineligible, but these legal efforts by the NNP were rejected.

In the general election held on July 8, 2008, David was re-elected from the Town of St. George. The NDC won a majority of seats in this election, and David became Minister of Tourism and Foreign Affairs in the new NDC Cabinet, led by Prime Minister Tillman Thomas, which was sworn in on July 13.

David later joined the New National Party (NNP), becoming a government senator following that party's landslide victory in the 2013 general election. After the NNP won another landslide victory in the 2018 election, David was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs. Following a cabinet reshuffle two years later, his portfolio switched to Minister for Agriculture and Labour., a position he held until NNP's loss at the polls in June, 2022. David made an unsuccessful run to become the new leader of the New National Party with the retirement in 2024 of long-term leader Keith Mitchell. David withdrew from the race a day before the party’s convention, accusing the process of having been rigged against him. He resigned from the New National Party and became an independent MP on 20 January 2025.