Third time unlucky for Flouquet

Friday 2nd May 2008, 2:29PM BST.

BERNARD Flouquet lost out in the race for chief minister for the third time yesterday. His sights are now set on the Public Services ministry.

Deputy Flouquet (pictured) ran for the chief minister post in both 2004 and 2007. This time he lost out in the last round of voting to Deputy Lyndon Trott.

‘I’m very pleased for Deputy Trott and he won that by a good margin,’ said Deputy Flouquet. ‘It’s my third attempt. I don’t think I will be trying again. This could be my last term in government anyway, but we will see how things pan out.’

He was pleased with the number of candidates who had put themselves forward for the job.