PN accuses PBS of being a propaganda machine for the Labour Party maltatoday.com.mt - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from maltatoday.com.mt Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Siġġiewi’s PL-led local council is seeking to overturn a decision by the director-general for local government to strip a former Labour MP of the locality
Former Labour MP Bertu Pace stripped of Siġġiewi s highest award timesofmalta.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from timesofmalta.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Three Siġġiewi local councillors have raised concern over giving the locality’s highest award to former Labour MP Bertu Pace, “a person who has been embroiled in controversy”.
Pace is set to be awarded the
Onorifiċenza Mertu Siġġiewi, an honour granted to citizens for having served the locality or country to the highest order and in an exemplary manner.
In 2016,
Times of Malta reported that Pace, consultant to then agriculture parliamentary secretary Roderick Galdes, had been suspended after the police launched an investigation into a permit for his daughter for a villa outside a development zone.
The permit was issued in the name of Roderick Farrugia, his son-in-law, and an investigation by the Agriculture Department had led to the Planning Authority starting procedures to revoke the permit.
Increasing women MPs: accelerating history
With 95 votes to her name before being eliminated, entrepreneur and Labour candidate Marion Mizzi would have made it to parliament in 2017 if the gender corrective mechanism was applied. Kurt Sansone explains how
18 January 2021, 4:22pm
by Kurt Sansone
The gender corrective mechanism being debated in parliament is intended to boost the number of MPs of the under-represented sex by a maximum of 12
Parliament would have ended up with 79 seats after the 2017 general election if the gender corrective mechanism being proposed now was applied.
Deborah Schembri and Paula Mifsud Bonnici would have been the first of 12 women candidates to hypothetically be elected to parliament in the quest to boost the number of female MPs.