The first Commonwealth’s country has already declared a referendum on the dethronement of the British monarch as head of state.
Gaston Browne, the prime minister of the Caribbean state of Antigua and Barbuda, announced a general vote on this matter.
Antigua and Barbuda is an island country in the Caribbean Sea, in the Lesser Antilles archipelago (Central America).
The head of state is the King of Great Britain, represented on the islands by the Governor General. The basis of the economy is tourism.
Until the 1970s, industrial agriculture dominated the economy. The administrative division is unusual. Antigua, inhabited by 98% of the population, is divided into 6 counties, while the rest of the islands are dependencies.
