BRASCOE Lee was on Sunday elected chairman of the National Democratic Movement, which has set a target of recruiting 2,000 new members this year.

The eight year-old political party has steadily lost support and has had its fair share of upheaval during its brief history, changing three presidents during the last two-and-a-half years.

Lee, the party’s former deputy chairman, filled the void left by Earl DeLisser. DeLisser was elected NDM president at the end of August, when Hyacinth Bennett quit after 15 months at the helm. Bennett had replaced party chairman and founder, Bruce Golding, who rejoined the main opposition, the Jamaica Labour Party, at the eleventh hour of last June’s local government polls.

During Sunday’s meeting at the Hydel Group of Schools, others elected to serve over the next year were:

* Peter Townsend, vice-chairman;

* and Michael Williams, general secretary.

The party’s four deputy general secretaries are:

* Kenrick Lewis

* Leon Campbell

* Errol Stephenson

* and Sexton Hope.

Others elected include Joan Belcher as treasurer and Lorane Ferguson, deputy treasurer.

At Sunday’s meeting, Lee also explained the party’s 50-point plan for restructuring the island’s political, social and economic system, which he had officially unveiled at the beginning of September.

The newly elected executive committee, said the NDM in a release, will examine the plan in detail before officially presenting it to the public.