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Chris Said
Chris Said (born July 10, 1970) is a Nationalist Party politician from Malta. Personal life Said was born in Nadur, Gozo. He is a lawyer by profession, having graduated with a Doctor of Laws from the University of Malta. Said is married to Linda, née Attard, and has three children: Anastasia, Andrea, and Benjamin. Politics He was a mayor of his home town, Nadur. His brothers Charles and Edward have also occupied the position. Following the 2008 Maltese general election, he was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary for Public Dialogue and Information in the Office of the Prime Minister by Lawrence Gonzi. Chris Said resigned from his post after there were accusations of perjury on September 23, 2010. Around a month later, on October 29, 2010, his name was cleared from accusations. Further to resignation of Carm Mifsud Bonnici, Said was appointed Minister for Justice, Dialogue and the Family on January 6, 2012. On June 6, 2013, he was appointed Secretary General of the Nati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Member Of Parliament
A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members often have a different title. The terms congressman/congresswoman or deputy are equivalent terms used in other jurisdictions. The term parliamentarian is also sometimes used for members of parliament, but this may also be used to refer to unelected government officials with specific roles in a parliament and other expert advisers on parliamentary procedure such as the Senate Parliamentarian in the United States. The term is also used to the characteristic of performing the duties of a member of a legislature, for example: "The two party leaders often disagreed on issues, but both were excellent parliamentarians and cooperated to get many good things done." Members of parliament typically form parliamentary groups, sometimes called caucuse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Maltese General Election
General elections were held in Malta on 8 March 2008 to elect all Member of parliament, members of the Parliament of Malta, House of Representatives They were held alongside 2008 Maltese local elections, local elections. The elections were contested by the Nationalist Party (Malta), Nationalist Party, the Malta Labour Party, Labour party, six other parties and independents. The governing Nationalist Party led by Lawrence Gonzi won its third consecutive election against the Labour Party led by Alfred Sant, winning the popular vote by a margin of just 0.55% and with its majority in parliament reduced to just one seat. Voter turnout was 93%. Background The House of Representatives was dissolved on 4 February, with elections scheduled for 8 March, the same day that local elections were to be held in 23 of 68 local councils of Malta, local councils. Results Initial exit polls and statistics suggested a very close result. Preliminary results had been expected by Sunday noon but these ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Gozo
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nationalist Party (Malta) Politicians
Nationalist Party may refer to: Current parties * Bangladesh Nationalist Party * Basque Nationalist Party * Cornish Nationalist Party * Nacionalista Party (Philippines) * Nationalist Movement Party (Turkey) * Nationalist Party of Canada * Nationalist Party of China, another name for the Kuomintang (Taiwan) * Nationalist Party (Malta) * Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Defunct parties * Nationalist Party (Australia) * Nationalist Party (Bolivia) * Nationalist Party of Bulgaria * Nationalist Party (Burma) * Nationalist Party of Cantabria * Nationalist Party of Castile and León * Nationalist Party of Greater Vietnam * Nationalist Party (Greece) * Nationalist Party (Iceland) * Nationalist Party (Ireland) * Nationalist Party (Ivory Coast) * Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland) * Nationalist Party (Panama) * Nationalist Party (Peru) * Nationalist Party of Peru (Eguiguren) * Nationalist Party of Peru (Revilla) * Nationalist Party (Quebec) * Nationalist Party of the Rif of Melilla * Nation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The House Of Representatives Of Malta
Member may refer to: * Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon * Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set * In object-oriented programming, a member of a class ** Field (computer science), entries in a database ** Member variable, a variable that is associated with a specific object * Limb (anatomy), an appendage of the human or animal body ** Euphemism for penis * Structural component of a truss, connected by nodes * User (computing), a person making use of a computing service, especially on the Internet * Member (geology), a component of a geological formation * Member of parliament * The Members, a British punk rock band * Meronymy, a semantic relationship in linguistics * Church membership, belonging to a local Christian congregation, a Christian denomination and the universal Church * Member, a participant in a club or learned society A learned society (; also learned academy, scholarly society, or academic association) is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970 Births
Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (''Extreme''). Between 10,000 and 14,621 were killed and 26,783 were injured. * January 14 – Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian Civil War. * January 15 – After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafran forces under Philip Effiong formally surrender to General Yakubu Gowon. February * February 1 – The Benavídez rail disaster near Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 236. * February 10 – An avalanche at Val-d'Isère, France, kills 41 tourists. * February 11 – '' Ohsumi'', Japan's first satellite, is launched on a Lambda-4 rocket. * February 22 – Guyana becomes a Republic within the Commonwealth of Nations. March * March 1 – Rhodesia severs its last tie with the United Kingdom, declaring itself a republic. * March 4 — All 57 m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Adrian Delia
Adrian Delia, (born 8 August 1969, in Sliema, Malta) is a Maltese politician, and lawyer by profession. He is the former leader of the Nationalist Party from September 2017 till October 2020. Early life Adrian Delia grew up in Birkirkara. He received his formation from the Jesuit St Aloysius' College. He graduated as a lawyer from the University of Malta in 1993. Professional life Delia started out in the Legal Office of Mid-Med Bank, a bank later acquired by HSBC and branded as HSBC Malta. Delia founded his legal firm Aequitas Legal. He acted as Director and Company Secretary of Erste Bank Malta. Involvement in football Delia was elected as vice-president of Birkirkara F.C. in June 2011, while also representing the club in the council of the Malta Football Association. He then was president of Birkirkara from 29 May 2015 till 29 June 2017 following his announcement that he would be taking an active role in politics. Under the presidency of Delia the club achieved the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Maltese General Election
General elections were held in Malta on Saturday, 3 June 2017 to elect all members of the House of Representatives.. The elections were contested by the Labour Party, led by Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, the Nationalist Party, led by opposition leader Simon Busuttil, and four other parties, making it the elections with most parties participating since 1962. The Labour Party won a second term in government for the first time since 1976, receiving 55% of the vote, the highest share since 1955. Voter turnout was 92%, down 1pp from 2013. Background The previous general elections were held on Saturday, 9 March 2013. The Labour Party, led by Muscat, defeated the incumbent Nationalist Party of Lawrence Gonzi in a landslide victory, taking 39 seats in the House of Representatives, against 30 for the Nationalist Party. However, on 5 February 2015 the Constitutional Court ordered two additional seats to be given to the Nationalist Party, increasing the total number of seats to 71. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Busuttil
Simon Busuttil (born 20 March 1969) is the Secretary General of the EPP Group (European People's Party) in the European Parliament. Formerly, he was Leader of the Opposition. and Leader of the Nationalist Party in Malta and a Member of the European Parliament for Malta. Education Busuttil, who is from Lija, graduated as Doctor of Laws (University of Malta, 1993), MA in European Studies (University of Sussex, 1994) and Magister Juris in International Law (University of Malta, 1995). As a student he was President of the Maltese Christian Democrat Students, SDM (1989–91), Student Representative on the Senate of the University of Malta (1991–92) and International Secretary of the Maltese National Youth Council (1992). Career Busuttil's career is mostly linked with EU affairs as well as with his parliamentary roles in the European Parliament and in the national Parliament in Malta. In 1999, Busuttil was appointed Head of the Malta-EU Information Centre (MIC) and led Malta's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosette Thake
Rosette is the French diminutive of ''rose''. It may refer to: Flower shaped designs * Rosette (award), a mark awarded by an organisation * Rosette (design), a small flower design *hence, various flower-shaped or rotational symmetric forms: ** Rosette (decoration), a small circular device that can be awarded with medal ** Rosette (politics), worn by political candidates in an election ** Rosette, a type of chain stitch in sewing ** Rose window, a Gothic circular architectonic component cut most frequently in shape similar to a rose ** Rosette (botany), a circular arrangement of leaves ** Rosette (zoology), markings like those of a jaguar ** a structure near the beak of some birds ** Pliska rosette, an ancient bronze artifact found in Pliska, Bulgaria in 1961 ** Rosette sampler, a circular arrangement of Nansen bottles ** a trophy attached on the head of a bull in the French ''course camarguaise'' bullfighting event ** Klemperer rosette, a term used in interstellar cosmology and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nationalist Party (Malta)
The Nationalist Party ( mt, Partit Nazzjonalista, PN) is one of the two major contemporary political parties in Malta, along with the Labour Party. It is a Christian-democratic, and conservative political party, and it has been also described as centrist or centre-right on the political spectrum. It is supportive of Malta's membership in the European Union. It is currently in opposition to the Labour Party. Since independence in 1964, the Nationalist Party has won six out of the thirteen general elections, in 1966, 1987, 1992, 1998 and 2003. In 2008 it won with a paper-thin majority of around 1500 votes. Ideology Malta's Nationalist Party is the successor to the Anti-Reform Party founded by Fortunato Mizzi in 1883, opposing taxation policies decreed by the British authorities and measures to anglicise the educational and judicial systems during the " Language Question" period. This would lead to the party openly siding with General Franco's fascist army in the Spanish Civil W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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