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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 ...
The politics of Malta takes place within a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the president of Malta is the constitutional head of state. Executive authority is vested in the president of Malta, with the general direction and control of the Government of Malta remaining with the prime minister of Malta, who ...
This is a list of members of the Maltese House of Representatives elected to the 14th legislature in the 2022 Maltese general election.. In the Parliament, the Labour Party holds a majority of seats after securing a third consecutive victory: 44 are members of the Labour Party, and 35 of the Nationalist Party.
List of prime ministers of Malta. Top left: Joseph Howard was the first prime minister of Malta. Top right: Giorgio Borġ Olivier was the 7th prime minister and presided over Malta's achievement of independence. Bottom left: Dom Mintoff was the longest-serving prime minister in Maltese history and presided over Malta's transition to a republic.
The Maltese Government 2022–2027 is the incumbent Government of Malta ( Maltese: Il-Gvern ta' Malta) as from 30 March 2022. It is the second ministry of Prime Minister Robert Abela. The Maltese government is elected through a General Election for a five-year term. The Labour Party ( Partit Laburista) won a majority following a general ...
The country's capital is Valletta . With a population of about 519,000 [8] over an area of 316 km 2 (122 sq mi), [7] Malta is the tenth-smallest country by area [18] [19] and the fifth most densely populated sovereign state. Its capital is Valletta, the smallest capital city in the European Union by area and population.
After independence in 1964, Malta followed a policy of close co-operation with NATO countries. Since 1971, the country sought relations with the rest of the world, including communist countries in Eastern Europe and the non-aligned countries. After substantially increased financial contributions from several NATO countries (including the United ...
Malta has been inhabited since 5900 BC. The first inhabitants were farmers; their agricultural methods degraded the soil until the islands became uninhabitable. The islands were repopulated around 3850 BC by a civilization that at its peak built the Megalithic Temples, which today are among the oldest surviving buildings in the world. Their civilization collapsed in around 2350 BC; the islands ...