Carmelo Mifsud Bonniċi (politician, 1960)
Carmelo "Carm" Mifsud Bonnici (born February 17, 1960 in Floriana ) is a Maltese politician of the Nationalist Party and Minister.
Life
Carm Mifsud Bonnici is the son of long-time MP, later Minister and former President of Malta, Ugo Mifsud Bonniċi , grandson of former MP Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici and nephew of Giuseppe Mifsud Bonnici , a former President of the Supreme Court of Malta (Chief Justice) and judge at the European Court of Human Rights . Carm Mifsud Bonnici is also a distant relative (2nd cousin) of the former Prime Minister of the same name and chairman of the Malta Labor Party , Carmelo Mifsud Bonniċi, and of the long-time PN MP and Parliamentary State Secretary for Seniors, Antoine Mifsud Bonnici .
After school education at St. Aloysius' College in Birkirkara and at De La Salle College Cottonera he graduated in law at the University of Malta , which he in 1984 with the promotion of Doctor of Laws ( LLD graduated). During his studies he was temporarily president of the student association MKSU (Kunsill Studenti Universitarji). During his studies he also held various offices in the youth association of the Nationalist Party , the Moviment Zgħazagħ Partit Nazzjonalista (MZPN). He then initially worked as a lawyer in the fields of criminal law , civil law and commercial law. He then became a Senior Lecturer in Roman Law at the University of Malta.
In the election in September 1998 he was elected for the first time as a member of the House of Representatives, where he represented constituency 2 . During his first term of office he was chairman of committees and a member of a number of other committees such as the legal one. He was re-elected as a member of parliament in the 2003 and 2008 parliamentary elections. Between October 2001 and March 2003, Dr. Mifsud Bonnici Member of the Maltese Environment and Planning Authority (MEPA).
In April 2003 he was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Justice and Home Affairs by Prime Minister Edward Fenech Adami , making him the closest collaborator to Minister Tonio Borg . He retained the post of Parliamentary State Secretary after Fenech Adami's successor as Prime Minister, Lawrence Gonzi , in March 2004.
After the victory of the Partit Nazzjonalista in the parliamentary elections in Malta in 2008 , Prime Minister Gonzi appointed him to succeed Tonio Borg as Minister of Justice and the Interior as part of an extensive cabinet reshuffle. Borg himself took over the office of foreign minister. As in the previous year, the Minister of the Interior was responsible for solving the refugee problem.
Publications
- Zewg Minuti Flimkien (1998)
- Il-Princiji hemm jibqu (2003)
- Sens u Sustanza (2008)
Web links
- Biography on the homepage of the Department of Information
- Homepage of the Ministry of Justice and the Interior
- Composition of the Maltese Parliament from 1921 to 2008
- Malta Elections: Candidate List, Part 2: Craig to Mintoff
Individual evidence
- ^ Malta Genealogy ( Memento from May 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ The long and winding road. In: Malta Today , March 9, 2008.
- ↑ rulers.org: March 8, 2008
- ^ "Black Peter about boat refugees in the Mediterranean", FOCUS April 27, 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mifsud Bonniċi, Carmelo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mifsud Bonniċi, Carm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Maltese politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 17, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Floriana |