Cabinet Mintoff III

The Maltese Cabinet Mintoff III was formed on September 25, 1976 by Prime Minister Dom Mintoff of the Partit Laburista (PL). It replaced Mintoff's second cabinet and was in office until December 20, 1981.

history

Dom Mintoff (1974)

In the elections to the House of Representatives on September 17 and 18, 1976, the mandates were again expanded from 55 to 65 seats, with the Partit Laburista Mintoffs having 34 seats and the Partit Nazzjonalista (PN) of the former Prime Minister minorġ Borg Olivier 31 Got mandates. The PL thus continued to have an absolute majority.

As agreed in the troop station, the last British military units withdrew from Malta on March 31, 1979 ( Freedom Day ). Mintoff was reprimanded especially in Western Europe for his pro-Soviet policies. During his tenure, Malta maintained close foreign policy relations with the then Soviet Union and other members of the Warsaw Pact , the People's Republic of China , North Korea and, within the framework of the “common Mediterranean identity” propagated by it, also with Libya . On March 11, 1980, he signed a defense agreement with the North African state and less than a year later, on January 26, 1981, Malta authorized the Soviet Union to use its ports. In the same year, the country's first seawater desalination plant was put into operation at Ghar Lapsi on the southwest coast near the temple complexes of Mnajdra , thus reducing the chronic water shortage.

In the elections of December 12, 1981, the PN was under its new chairman Eddie Fenech Adami with 114,132 votes in front of the PL Mintoffs, which had 109,990 votes. Due to the right to vote, the Partit Laburista still had 34 seats, while the Partit Nazzjonalista received 31 seats. Mintoff then formed his fourth cabinet .

minister

Office	Surname	Political party	Remarks
Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary , Commonwealth Minister and Home Secretary	Dom Mintoff	Partit Laburista
Minister for Finance, Customs and Investments	Joseph "Guze" Abela Joseph "Guze" Cassar	Partit Laburista Partit Laburista	Abela: term of office September 25, 1976 until resignation in July 1979 Cassar: term of office July 9, 1979 to December 1981, prior to that Minister for Justice, Parliamentary Affairs, Land and Housing
Minister of Education	Joseph "Guze" Cassar Philip Muscat	Partit Laburista Partit Laburista	Cassar: term of office September 25 to December 27, 1976 thereafter Minister for Justice, Parliamentary Affairs, Land and Housing Muscat: term of office December 27, 1976 to December 1981
Minister of Commerce	Patrick Holland	Partit Laburista	since December 1978 Minister for Industry and Trade and as such responsible for semi-public industry
Minister for Justice, Parliamentary Affairs, Land and Housing	Anton Buttiġieġ Joseph "Guze" Cassar Joseph Brincat	Partit Laburista Partit Laburista Partit Laburista	Buttiġieġ: term of office September 25 to resignation on December 27, 1976 Resignation due to the election of President Cassar: term of office December 27, 1976 to July 9, 1979, before Minister of Education, then since July 9, 1979 Minister of Finance, Customs and Investments Brincat : Term of office July 9, 1979 to December 1981
Minister for Labor, Employment, Social Security and Culture	Agatha Barbara	Partit Laburista
Minister of Health	Vincent Moran	Partit Laburista
Minister of Public Works and Sport	Lorry Sant	Partit Laburista
Minister for Economic Development, Energy, Ports and Telecommunications	Wistin Abela	Partit Laburista
Minister for Industry, Agriculture and Fisheries	Danny Cremona Alfred "Freddie" Micallef	Partit Laburista Partit Laburista	Cremona: term of office September 25, 1976 to December 1978, then Minister of Tourism Micallef: Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries from December 1978 to December 1981, before that Minister of State-owned Industry
Minister for Semi-Public Industry	Alfred "Freddie" Micallef	Partit Laburista	Micallef: term of office September 25, 1976 to December 1978, then Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries
Tourism Minister	Daniel Piscopo Danny Cremona	Partit Laburista Partit Laburista	Piscopo: term of office September 25, 1976 until resignation in December 1978. Cremona: term of office December 1978 to December 1981, before that Minister for Industry, Agriculture and Fisheries

Web links

• Ministerial Cabinets since 1921 in Maltese History & Hertítage
• Maltese Key Ministries (rulers.org)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The great Ploetz. The encyclopedia of world history , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. Göttingen 2008, p. 1525
2. ^ The duties of the Ministry of Semi-State Industry were taken over by the Ministry of Trade and Industry