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PL-led council seeks to overturn decision to strip former MP of Siġġiewi award

Questions raised over nominee for award in Siġġiewi

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

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.

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