Alex Perici Calascione (born June 17, 1962) is a
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politician and lawyer who currently serves as the deputy leader of the
Nationalist Party (PN). He previously served as President of the party's Executive Committee until 2020, and as party treasurer until 2017.
Biography
Perici Calascione studied at
St Aloysius' College in
Birkirkara
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and graduated in law at the
University of Malta
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in 1986. He has practicised as a legal adviser since then, joining Emmanuel Mallia and Associates since 1984.
[Biography]
Times of Malta
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, April 2009
Prime Minister
Eddie Fenech Adami
Edoardo "Eddie" Fenech Adami, (born 7 February 1934) is a Maltese politician and Nationalist politician who served as the prime minister of Malta from 1987 until 1996, and again from 1998 until 2004. Subsequently, he was the seventh president ...
appointed Perici Calascione as
Commissioner of Justice in 1991. He served in the role until 1996,
[ when he went back to Emmanuel Mallia and Associates. He later founded his own law firm, PCM Legal.][ He also represented the family of ]Karin Grech
Karin Maria Grech (1962 – 28 December 1977) was the daughter of Professor Edwin Grech, then head of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at St. Luke's Hospital, Malta.
In 1977, aged 15, she was killed by a letterbomb addressed t ...
in the civil compensation case, between 2008 and 2010.
A member of the Partit Nazzjonalista
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 a ...
, Perici Calascione run as candidate Member of the European Parliament at the 2009 European Parliament election in Malta
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Candidates Alter ...
;
From 2009 until 2013, Perici Calascione served on the Board of the Malta Council for Science and Technology.[
Perici Calascione was elected to the executive committee of the Nationalist Party in March 2013 and subsequently elected to the post of party Treasurer and member of the Administrative Council. He was elected once again to the party's Executive Committee and confirmed as Treasurer in June 2015.
Following his re-election in 2017 he was elected as President of the party's Executive Committee in July 2019 and in November 2020 was approved as a candidate for the forthcoming general election for the 8th and 11th Electoral Districts. During his term as President of the Executive Committee, Perici Calascione guided the Committee through a challenging period of the party's history and also presided over reforms aimed at modernising the party.
In 2022, Perici Calascione was the sole nominee for the post of deputy leader for the Nationalist Party. He was confirmed as deputy with 90% of the vote.]
Personal life
Alex Perici Calascione is married to MayAnne Perici Calascione (née Pisani), with whom he has with three children.
References
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1962 births
Living people
20th-century Maltese lawyers
Nationalist Party (Malta) politicians
21st-century Maltese politicians
21st-century Maltese lawyers