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2019–2020 Maltese protests. The 2019–2020 Maltese protests started in Valletta and other urban centres of Malta on 20 November 2019, mainly calling for resignations [10] [11] after alleged political links [12] [13] [14] to the assassination of journalist and blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia surfaced following the arrest of businessman Yorgen ...
2019 Malta political crisis. Protest of Maltese civil society rises at the Auberge de Castille, the office of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat. A political and institutional crisis within the Republic of Malta followed the uncovering of links between government officials and the 2017 assassination of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.
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2022 Maltese general election. General elections were held in Malta on 26 March 2022 to elect all members of the House of Representatives. The Labour Party, which had governed Malta since 2013, won a second term in 2017 election under then-leader Joseph Muscat. Simon Busuttil, the leader of the opposition Nationalist Party, resigned after the ...
Joseph Muscat. Joseph Muscat KUOM (born 22 January 1974) is a Maltese politician who served as the 13th prime minister of Malta from 2013 to 2020 [1] [2] and leader of the Labour Party from 2008 to 2020. [3] [4] Muscat was re-elected as prime minister in the elections of 3 June 2017 (55.04% after 54.83% in 2013). [5]
Daphne Anne Caruana Galizia ( née Vella; 26 August 1964 – 16 October 2017) was a Maltese writer, journalist, blogger and anti-corruption activist, who reported on political events in Malta and was known internationally for her investigation of the Panama Papers, and subsequent assassination by car bomb.
The Times of Malta is an English-language daily newspaper in Malta. Founded in 1935, by Lord and Lady Strickland and Lord Strickland's daughter Mabel, it is the oldest daily newspaper still in circulation in Malta. It has the widest circulation of any Maltese newspaper. [2] The newspaper is published by Allied Newspapers Limited, which is owned ...
Under Muscat's leadership Malta's national deficit was eliminated, [33] unemployment decreased to historic lows, [34] and an unprecedented period of economic growth occurred. [35] However, he was criticised by figures on both sides of the political spectrum, accused of political opportunism, [ 36 ] broken promises on meritocracy [ 37 ] and the ...