Nationalist Party International Secretary Roselyn Borg Knight says that while she is behind the party’s leadership, it should be doing more to speak the language of young people and the electorate in general
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My father always advocated that one should vote for individuals rather than the political parties they are affiliated to.
I’ve often wondered if my father was right in reasoning the way he did and, now, in view of recent developments, the question seems even more pertinent.
I can certainly see where my father’s logic comes from but I still firmly believe in the importance of voting for a party that represents our values regardless of the individual candidates within it.
It is fundamental that we choose which party to vote for based on what it is planning to offer the Maltese and Gozitans.
Sometimes, when having to write a speech, whether political or professional, I struggle with finding an appropriate tone or even with finding my muse but, as I
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.