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Women In Maltese General Elections
Fifteen general elections have been contested since the granting of universal suffrage in Malta. Only 73 women have contested in these elections. The number of men, on the other hand, has exceeded 1000. The number of women contesting general elections has, however, increased over the years. In fact, the 1998 elections saw 24 women candidates participating, the highest number to date, with six of these getting elected, registering a 25 percent success rate. The smallest number of female candidates was in 1947, when a universal suffrage was introduced, and these numbered only two. However, the result showed a 50 percent success rate, since Agatha Barbara was elected. The election of 1955 saw the lowest percentage of women candidates being elected with a 14.3 percent success rate, when only one candidate out of seven was elected. After this discouraging result, the success rate rose slowly until, in the 1976 election, there was a 42.3 percent success rate for women candidates. At tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malta
Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in Southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea, between Sicily and North Africa. It consists of an archipelago south of Italy, east of Tunisia, and north of Libya. The two official languages are Maltese language, Maltese and English language, English. The country's capital is Valletta, which is the smallest capital city in the EU by both area and population. It was also the first World Heritage Site, World Heritage City in Europe to become a European Capital of Culture in 2018. With a population of about 542,000 over an area of , Malta is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, tenth-smallest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population density, ninth-most densely populated. Various sources consider the country to consist of a single urban region, for which it is often described as a city-state. Malta has been inhabited since at least 6500 BC, during the Mesolith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanna Debono
Giovanna Debono ( Attard; born November 25, 1956) was the Minister for Gozo () in a number of Nationalist governments.Page at Maltese Department of Information website Early life Debono was born in on the island of . She is the daughter of the late Coronato Attard, who was a Member of Parliament from 1965 to 1987, and Anna ''née'' Tabone. She completed her studies at the University of Malta from where she obtained a B.A. in Education. From 1981 to 1987, she worked as a teacher with the Education Department in ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malta Workers Party
The Malta Workers Party () was a political party in Malta. It was founded in 1949 by then prime minister Paul Boffa, shortly after his leadership of the Labour Party failed a motion of no confidence. The party was part of the opposition from 1950 to 1951, then a coalition government with the Nationalist Party from 1951 to 1955. History The Malta Workers Party was formed as a split from the Labour Party. Maltese prime minister Paul Boffa resigned as the Labour Party's leader following a motion of no confidence against him by party members in 1949. He subsequently founded the Workers Party and was joined by his supporters, who considered themselves "moderate" in comparison to those who remained in the Labour Party. Both parties won 11 seats in the 1950 election, allowing the Nationalist Party (which won 12 seats) to form the government. In the general election the following year, the Labour Party won 14 seats and the Workers Party won 7, with the Workers Party joining a coa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celia De Trafford Strickland
Celia may refer to: Film and television * ''Celia'' (1949 film), British comedy thriller * ''Celia'' (1989 film), Australian drama * ''Celia'' (Colombian TV series), a Spanish-language telenovela based on the life of Celia Cruz * ''Celia'' (Spanish TV series), a Spanish TV-series based on Elena Fortún's novels Literature * Celia (''As You Like It''), a character in Shakespeare's ''As You Like It'' *Celia, the title character in the novels by Elena Fortún, including: **''Celia, lo que dice'' (1929) **'' Celia en el colegio'' (1932) **''Celia en el mundo'' (1934) Music Albums * ''Celia'' (album), an album by Tiwa Savage *''Celia'', tribute album by Angélique Kidjo 2019 * "Celia" (song), a 2011 single by Annah Mac Songs *"Celia", a jazz tune by Bud Powell on his 1950 album ''Jazz Giant'' *"Celia", a song by Phil Ochs on his 1964 album ''All the News That's Fit to Sing'' *"Celia", B-side of the 1974 single "Billy Don't Be a Hero" by Paper Lace *"Celia", a song by Camila Cabello on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Progressive Constitutionalist Party (Malta)
The Progressive Constitutionalist Party (PCP) was a political party in Malta between 1953 and 1971. History The PCP was established in 1953 by Mabel Strickland, owner of the ''Times of Malta'' and daughter of Gerald Strickland, the founder of the Constitutional Party (Malta), Constitutional Party.Vincent E McHale (1983) ''Political parties of Europe'', Greenwood Press, p635 It was a split from the Constitutional Party, which Strickland had left in protest against its support for the Labour Party (Malta), Labour Party's policy of integration with the United Kingdom. The party failed to win a seat in elections in 1953 Maltese general election, 1953 and 1955 Maltese general election, 1955, but won a single seat in the 1962 Maltese general election, 1962 elections. However, it lost its seat in the post-independence 1966 Maltese general election, 1966 elections. After failing to win a seat in the 1971 Maltese general election, 1971 elections it subsequently disappeared. Ideology ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constitutional Party (Malta)
The Constitutional Party () was a pro-British political party in Malta. It had representatives in the Parliament of Malta, Maltese Legislative Assembly and Council of Government between 1921 and 1945, and again between 1950 and 1953, forming a government between 1927 and 1930 with the support of the Malta Labour Party, Labour Party. A splinter group, the Progressive Constitutionalist Party (Malta), Progressive Constitutionalist Party was represented in Parliament between 1962 and 1966. The party was very much centred on the figure (and wealth) of its long-time leader Gerald Strickland, Lord Strickland, with party supporters colloquially known in Maltese as "''Stricklandjani''". History Foundation The party was formed in 1921, in time for the 1921 Maltese general election, first elections to the Legislative Assembly. It was a merger of Strickland's Anglo-Maltese Party and the Maltese Constitutional Party of Augusto Bartolo, editor of the Malta Chronicle. The predecessor parties had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mabel Strickland
Mabel Edeline Strickland, (8 January 1899 – 29 November 1988), was an Anglo-Maltese journalist, newspaper proprietor and politician. Family and personal life Strickland was the daughter of Sir Gerald Strickland, later the 4th Prime Minister of Malta, and Lady Edeline Sackville. Her mother was the eldest daughter of Reginald Sackville, 7th Earl De La Warr of Knole, Kent. Mabel never married, leaving the bulk of her estate to her sole heir Robert Hornyold-Strickland. Mabel set up the Strickland Foundation "for herself and her heirs in perpetuity" in 1979. However some of her key assets including the majority shareholding of Allied Newspapers Ltd together with her family home and all of her personal, legal and administrative papers were diverted by her executors away from Mabel's heir. This has resulted in two significant court cases filed against the Foundation and Allied Newspapers Ltd by her heir. Residences Mabel Strickland lived the most of her life at Villa Paris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Alternative (Malta)
Democratic Alternative (), sometimes referred to as AD – The Green Party, was a green political party in Malta. The party was initially founded by a coalition of former Labour Party members and environmental activists in 1989. On 1 August 2020 the party announced a plan to merge with the Democratic Party to form a new party called AD+PD. The merger was conducted on 17 October 2020. History Alternattiva Demokratika was founded in 1989 when former Malta Labour Party President Toni Abela and former Labour MP and Parliamentary whip Wenzu Mintoff joined a number of environmental activists to form the new political party. Abela and Mintoff had resigned their posts in protest at the presence of certain elements in the Labour Party tainted with political violence and corruption. For this Abela and Mintoff were expelled from the Labour Party. Mintoff retained his seat in Parliament and, between 1989 and 1992 was effectively an MP for the new party as well as its first Chairperso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marthese Portelli
Marthese Portelli is a Maltese lawyer. Political career Portelli was a politician, member of Parliament for District 9, where she was elected in 2013 and re-elected in 2017. She forms part of the Nationalist Party. She also unsuccessfully contested 2009 European Parliament Election in Malta An election of the delegation from Malta to the European Parliament was held on 6 June 2009, on the same day as the 2009 Maltese local council elections. Candidates Alternattiva Demokratika – AD (Democratic Alternative) *Arnold Cassola * ... on the Nationalist Party ticket. She was twice elected as the president of the Nationalist Party Executive Committee and was the first woman to hold this role. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Portelli, Marthese Living people Nationalist Party (Malta) politicians 21st-century Maltese lawyers Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Maltese women politicians 21st-century Maltese politicians Women lawyers Members of the House of Repr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Mifsud Bonnici
Paula Mifsud Bonnici is a Maltese lawyer and politician, member of the Parliament of Malta between 2013 and 2017 for Nationalist Party representing the District 1. She was member of Family Affairs Committee and Social Affairs Committee She forms part of a family of politicians: her father, Antoine Mifsud Bonnici, whose uncle was Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici (''il-Gross''), Minister between 1920 and 1930, was MP and his brother, Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, Prime Minister between 1984 and 1987; and her father's cousins are Ugo Mifsud Bonnici, President between 1994 and 1999 and Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici, Minister of Home Affairs between 2008 and 2012. Paula started in politics in the local elections of 1996 at Ħamrun Hamrun ( ) is a town in the Southern Region, Malta, Southern Region of Malta, with a population of 9,244 as of March 2014. The people The townspeople are traditionally known as ''Tas-Sikkina'' (literally meaning 'of the knife' or 'those who ca ... town and in November 2009 wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolores Cristina
Dolores Cristina (born January 10, 1949Page at Maltese Department of Information website ) is a former politician who served in a number of ministerial positions under a number of Nationalist Governments. Early life and education Cristina was born in . She graduated from the Royal University of Malta with a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) degree in 1971 and held teaching posts in history and English at secondary and post-secon ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen D'Amato
Helen D'Amato is a Maltese politician and educator who was a member of the Parliament of Malta from 1996 to 2008 and Commissioner for Children of Malta from 2010 to 2016. She is a member of the Nationalist Party. Career Before she was elected to Parliament, D'Amato was a schoolteacher and a judicial assistant in Malta's juvenile court. Member of Parliament D'Amato was first elected to Parliament as a member of the Nationalist Party on 14 November 1996, and was sworn in the following month on 5 December. She was re-elected to the legislature two years later, and chaired the Social Affairs Committee from 1998 to 2004. In the 2003 general election, she received fewer votes than Ninu Zammit and Louis Galea, but filled Galea's seat because he was also elected in a separate district. D'Amato actively supported Lawrence Gonzi's successful 2004 campaign for prime minister, and was appointed by Gonzi as parliamentary secretary for the elderly and community care in March 2004, shortly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
