Alfred Sant

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Alfred Sant, 2012

Alfred Sant (born February 28, 1948 in Pietà ) is a Maltese politician, former Prime Minister and former chairman of the Malta Labor Party .

Degree and academic title

After studying physics and mathematics at the University of Malta , which he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in 1967 and a Master of Science in 1968 , he later studied administrative sciences at the ENA in Paris . He also earned a Master of Business Administration from Boston University and a Doctor of Business Administration from Harvard University .

Promotion to party chairman

In 1982 he was first head of the Labor Party's information department and was elected President of the Labor Party for two years. He remained in this office until 1988.

In 1987 he was co-opted into parliament. In the parliamentary elections of 1992, Sant was elected a member of parliament and in the same year, as the successor to Carmelo Mifsud Bonniċi, chairman of the Labor Party and opposition leader.

Prime Minister from 1996 to 1998

Following the 1996 general election, won by the Labor Party, Sant became Prime Minister of Malta on October 28, 1996, succeeding Edward Fenech Adami . A few days later, he withdrew Malta's admission agreement to the European Union and also declared the republic's withdrawal from NATO's “Partnership for Peace” program in order to preserve the neutrality and national character of the Mediterranean island state .

Due to internal party problems, however, he was forced to hold new elections in 1998, which the Labor Party then lost. He himself was replaced as Prime Minister on September 6, 1998 by Fenech Adami. As a result, on September 15, 1998, Malta's application for membership of the EU was renewed .

Opponent of joining the European Union

In the run-up to the referendum on Malta's accession to the European Union in 2003, Sant led his party on an anti-accession course and instead favored a partnership agreement with the EU. Sant called on his party's supporters to boycott the accession referendum and actually stayed away from the ballot box himself. The call for a boycott meant that those in favor of accession only narrowly won and Sant rejected the result because it did not represent the majority of the population. In this context, he took the view that any non-voter would be against Malta's accession to the European Union.

The Labor Party lost in the 2003 general election. Sant then resigned as party chairman, but was subsequently re-elected chairman by a large majority. However, on July 6, 2005, his party also voted in parliament for the constitution of the European Union.

After the narrow defeat in the parliamentary elections in 2008 , a primary election was held within the Labor Party, from which Joseph Muscat emerged as the new party chairman.

European parliamentarians

In the 2014 European elections , Sant was elected to the European Parliament .

Publications

  • Malta's European Challenge , 1995
  • Never a Beginning, Never an End - 1599 (historical novel)
  • Confessions of a European Maltese

literature

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Sant, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Maltese Politician (MLP), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Pietà