Edwin Grech (27 September 1928 – 15 March 2023) was a Maltese doctor and politician from the Labour Party.

Career

Grech was elected to the

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from District 2 in

1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...

and

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

. He was Minister of Social Security from 1996 to 1998.

Death

He died in 2023. His funeral was attended by Prime Minister

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, other ministers and former prime minister

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Family

His daughter Karin Grech was murdered in 1977 by a letter bomb. His nephew

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was leader of the Nationalist Party from 2020 until his resignation in 2025.

References

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