Alfred Sant will not contest next European Parliament election
Alfred Sant will not be contesting the next European Parliament election, the former prime minister has confirmed.
“Of course not,” he replied emphatically when asked by veteran journalist Reno Bugeja whether he will be a candidate in the European election due in 2024.
Sant was interviewed on Reno Bugeja Jistaqsi, broadcast on MaltaToday’s Facebook page.
When it was pointed out that as an MEP his press statements are not released through the Labour Party and his presence on the party media was almost non-existent, Sant said those were the signs of “someone who is slowly exiting the room”.
The years 1975-1992 were a period of conflict and transition all over the world, as well as in Malta. Alfred Sant’s memoirs
Confessions of a Maltese European, which are being published this spring by SKS provides a personal chronicle of his experiences during those years. They start with his years in Boston, at a time when US society was absorbing the shock of the resignation in disgrace of President Richard Nixon.
Sant’s story then shifts to Malta. It covers the years leading to the successful finale of the Mintoff administration’s effort to eliminate once and for all the island’s reliance on the military base operated from it by the British. Meanwhile, political conflict picked up and remained a feature of the Malta scene for long years to come. In 1977, Karen Grech was killed by a bomb sent to her father’s house; in 1986, Raymond Caruana was shot dead at the PN’s club in Gudja.
Opposition leader pays tribute to late cousin Karin Grech, murdered 43 years ago
Bernard Grech pays tribute to his late cousin, Karin Grech, who was 15 when she was killed after opening a parcel bomb addressed to her father, Prof. Edwin Grech
28 December 2020, 10:46am
by Karl Azzopardi
Nationalist leader Bernard Grech has paid tribute to his late cousin Karin Grech, who was killed with a parcel bomb on this day in 1977.
Karin Grech was 15 when she opened a parcel addressed to her father Edwin Grech while at the family home. The parcel, wrapped in Christmas paper, was a bomb that exploded, killing Karin and injuring her brother.