Charles Savarin

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Charles Angelo Savarin (born 1943) is a politician from Dominica.

Savarin has served as the leader of the Dominica Freedom Party since 1996. Under his leadership, the party has failed to recover from its decline that started when it lost the 1995 general election. Savarin brought the DFP into a coalition government with their erstwhile adversaries, the Dominica Labour Party, following the 2000 general election, when the DFP was reduced to 2 of the 21 popularly elected seats in House of Assembly. Neither of the two larger parties, the DLP and the United Workers' Party, had enough seats to form a government on their own.

Savarin, who himself was narrowly re-elected in 2000 from his Roseau district, was appointed by the then-Prime Minister, Rosie Douglas, to serve as Minister of Tourism.

In the 2005 general election, the DFP finished with only 3.15% of the popular vote and without any elected seats in the House of Assembly. Despite this setback for him and the DFP, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit appointed Savarin as one of 9 senators as well as promoted him to the post of foreign minister on 14 May 2005, where he continues to serve.

Savarin survived several attempts to oust him from his post as leader of the DFP due to discontent within the party due to the party having suffered a huge electoral setback and discord over the continued coalition with the Dominica Labour Party.

However on August 5, 2007 he was replaced as Political Leader of the DFP by Michael Astaphan.