By Damion Mitchell, Staff Reporter 
Tufton
CHRISTOPHER TUFTON is the new president of Generation 2000 (G2K) the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) affiliate organisation of young professionals.
He was elected during a meeting at the party's Belmont Road Headquarters in St. Andrew yesterday.
Tufton, 34, the G2K's former general secretary defeated former vice-president Senator Norman Horne by 12 votes to Horne's 10 to claim the presidency.
"It was a tight race for good reasons but at the end, the voters spoke," Tufton told The Sunday Gleaner, shortly after his election yesterday.
"Clearly our mandate is to complement and support the Jamaica Labour Party," he said, explaining that the G2K would be involved in policy formations to facilitate further organisation of the party.
He also said the G2K would be renewing attempts to garner more support for the party through islandwide seminars and through the establishment of more chapters, especially given the decrease in support for the People's National Party as has been recently stated by officials of that party.
Commenting on statements made in June by Ian Hayles, vice-chairman of G2K, that the organisation would be formulating recommendations to ensure that "corruption, at least at the local government level become a thing of the past," Mr. Tufton said, "It (corruption in Government) is a critical issue and it will be part of our discussions as G2K moves forward as a unified force."
Mr. Tufton succeeds Dr. Ronald Robinson as head of the organisation of young professionals. Ian Hayles, Kavan Gayle, Mitzie Pratt, Kenneth Rowe and Trudy Deans were elected as vice presidents.
