Joseph M. Baldacchino

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Joseph Mary Baldacchino (born September 16, 1922 in Valletta , † June 21, 2006 ) was a Maltese politician of the Malta Labor Party (MLP). He was Speaker of the House .

biography

After attending school, he joined the Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) in 1941, the British Army's supply and replenishment corps , and was a member of it until 1966.

His political career began in 1951, when he was appointed Deputy Secretary of the Malta Labor Party the town Gżira was chosen. In 1959 he was elected a member of the National Executive Committee and at the same time he was appointed Deputy Secretary General of the MLP. He held this office until 1962.

When he was elected to the first parliament of independent Malta in 1962 , he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the House of Representatives. It was not until the next election in 1966 that he was elected as a candidate for the Labor Party as a member of parliament, where he initially represented the interests of constituency 7 . He was elected despite the higher percentage of the vote of the first-placed Michael A. Refalo. In the 1971 and 1976 elections , he was re-elected as a member of parliament, where he last represented constituency 10 until 1981 .

In 1971 he was elected Secretary and Parliamentary Managing Director ( Whip ) of the MLP parliamentary group in the House of Representatives. Between November 1976 and November 1981 he was Deputy Speaker of Parliament. Although he did not succeed in defending his mandate in the 1981 election, he moved up in 1986 to succeed the late Dr. Patrick Holland as MP. As such, he was initially chairman of the committee on the work of the courts.

In February 1987 he succeeded Paul Xuereb as Speaker of the House . Jimmy Farrugia followed him as Speaker of the House in July 1987 .

In 1996, along with a number of other politicians, he received the commemorative medal for the 75th anniversary of the Maltese self-government. In addition to him, the House of Representatives also paid tribute to two other deceased Speakers of the House in 2006: Kalcidon Agius and Jimmy Farrugia .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John C. Lane: Who Needs Transfer Votes? ( Memento of August 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) June 2001
  2. ^ Deaths and Resignations from Parliament ( Memento from August 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Leaders of Malta (Republic of Malta)
  4. ↑ Maltese Ministries, etc.
  5. ↑ Medal to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the reintroduction of self-government (1996) ( Memento from April 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ House of Representatives Annual Review 2006 , p. 31
personal data
SURNAME Baldacchino, Joseph M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baldacchino, Joseph Mary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Maltese politician, Speaker of the Maltese Parliament
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Valletta
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 2006