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Island Nation To Hold Referendum For Republic After Charles Made Its King
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Island Nation To Hold Referendum For Republic After Charles Made Its King

Antigua and Barbuda plans to maintain a referendum on turning into a republic in the subsequent 3 years, the Caribbean kingdom's high minister instructed British media Saturday, a circulate that might see King Charles III eliminated as its head of state. "This is an issue that must be taken to a referendum...in the subsequent, probably, 3 years," Prime Minister Gaston Browne instructed ITV News quickly after a neighborhood rite showed Charles III because the country's King following Queen Elizabeth II's death. The tiny Caribbean island kingdom, which have become unbiased from Britain in 1981, is one in every of 14 Commonwealth individuals who proportion the United Kingdom monarch as their head of state. Brown stated turning into a republic became "a very last step to finish the circle of i...