Louis Galea

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Louis Galea (* 1948 ) is a Maltese politician with the Nationalist Party , a long-time former minister and former speaker of the House of Representatives .

biography

Professional career, MP and Secretary General of the PN

After attending school, he completed a law degree , which he initially completed with a Bachelor of Arts . After obtaining his doctorate in law ( LL.D. ), he worked as a lawyer. In addition, he was temporarily a lecturer at private and state schools and most recently a lecturer at the University of Malta .

During his studies he already joined the Partit Nazzjonalista . Together with Michael Frendo he was one of the organizers of the student-led national campaign "Djar ghall-Maltin" (Houses for the Maltese) in 1968, which aimed to ensure affordable housing and land planning after independence from the United Kingdom . In addition, he was President of the Catholic Student Guild in 1969 . In 1972 he was first secretary and then in 1973 President of the Students' Representative Council at the University of Malta.

His actual political career began in 1971 when he ran for the Nationalist Party (Partit Nazzjonalista) for a seat in the House of Representatives for the first time, but unsuccessfully. In the 1976 elections he was elected Member of Parliament and re-elected in the subsequent elections of 1981 , 1987 , 1992 , 1996 , 1998 and 2003 . During this time he represented the interests of constituencies 5 , 6 and later 7 .

Just one year after being elected MP, Galea was elected General Secretary of the Nationalist Party in 1977 alongside the new party chairman Edward Fenech Adami . During his tenure, which lasted until 1987, he was instrumental in founding new party associations in Malta and Gozo . In addition, the PN women's and youth organization was founded at this time, as was the establishment of a secretariat for workers in order to step up competition with the Malta Labor Party under Prime Minister Dominic Mintoff .

Minister and Speaker of Parliament

After the 1987 election and the victory of the Partit Nazzjonalista, Prime Minister Fenech Adami appointed him Minister of Social Affairs in his cabinet on May 12, 1987. In this position, he introduced an Auxiliary Workers Training Scheme for previously illegally employed workers. However, the rental of dump trucks, cranes, bulldozers and other heavy construction machinery from private building contractors resulted in massive expenses, which were described in the Auditor General's report in 1990 as being outside normal budgetary control. In particular, it was criticized that the construction companies involved were based in the constituencies of Galea. In 1996 report submitted to the Permanent Anti -Corruption Commission (Permanent Anti-Corruption Commission) but was acquitted of any influence on the aforementioned leases, but a Commissioner was of a different opinion. In addition, the National Commission for People with Disabilities was established in 1987, the Commission for the Advancement of Women in 1988, the Association for Employment and Training in 1990 and the Department for Equal Opportunities for Women in 1991.

After the subsequent election on February 27, 1992, he became Minister of the Interior and Minister of Social Development in Fenech Adami's second government. As such, he pushed through the conversion of the Corradino prison into a correctional facility. He kept the office of Minister of the Interior until he was replaced by Tonio Borg on May 1, 1995, while he headed the Ministry of Social Affairs until the election defeat in October 1996. In 1994 the Agency for Combating Drug and Alcohol Abuse was founded and the social welfare development program was adopted at the same time.

After the PN was again elected in 1998, he was appointed Minister of Education on September 8, 1998 by Prime Minister Fenech Adami in his third cabinet. He kept this office as Minister for Education, Youth and Employment in the subsequent government of Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi from March 23, 2004 to March 2008. In this office he began a reform of the Maltese school system. As such, he introduced so-called educational colleges and a reform of the school exams. He also had junk food banned in schools. Finally, during his tenure, the Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology (MCAST) was founded. During his tenure as Minister of Education, however, he was also accused of involvement in the embezzlement of public funds of the Foundation for Tomorrow's Schools. The statement of accounts came to the conclusion that the instructions were given without clarification with the Ministry of Finance and that 30 percent of the funds went to people from Galea's two constituencies. Prime Minister Gonzi, however, defended his minister by describing the Court of Auditors' allegations as unacceptable.

After the resignation of the Prime Minister and chairman of the PN, Eddie Fenech Adami, in February 2004, he also applied for his successor as party chairman, but was defeated by Lawrence Gonzi and one other applicant.

In the 2008 elections, he was unable to defend his mandate again, although he was second in constituency 6 after the then Minister of Social Affairs, John Dalli , and thus left the cabinet. Successor as Minister of Education and Culture was Dolores Cristina .

Nevertheless, he was on 10 May 2008 as the successor to Anton Tabone for Speaker of the House (Speaker of the House) elected and sworn in on May 9, 2008 as a speaker.

He held the office of speaker until April 19, 2010. His successor as Speaker of the House of Representatives was former Foreign Minister Michael Frendo on April 29, 2010 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Louis Galea brought PN's language 'closer to the working class'", TIMES OF MALTA March 13, 2008
  2. ^ "Louis Galea: The rise and fall of a Maltese Christian Democrat", MALTA TODAY March 16, 2008
  3. ^ Gonzi cabinet
  4. ^ "Placing Students at the Heart of all that we do .... MCAST launches its Strategic Plan 2007-2009", December 7, 2006 ( Memento of the original from March 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mcast.edu.mt
  5. ↑ "MCAST celebrates its First Foundation Day", October 29, 2007 ( Memento of the original from December 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mcast.edu.mt
  6. ^ "Louis Galea: The rise and fall of a Maltese Christian Democrat", MALTA TODAY March 16, 2008
  7. ↑ "Tribute to Louis Galea", TIMES OF MALTA March 25, 2008  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / f1plus.timesofmalta.com  
  8. ^ "PN presents its election candidates", TIMES OF MALTA February 13, 2008
  9. ↑ Leaders of Malta (Republic of Malta)
  10. ↑ Maltese Ministries, etc.
  11. ↑ Reactions to Louis Galea's nomination  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / maltapolitics.info  
  12. ^ "Louis Galea to be nominated Speaker", MALTA MEDIA, May 5, 2008
  13. ↑ "Louis Galea sworn in as speaker", TIMES OF MALTA May 10, 2008  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / f1plus.timesofmalta.com  
  14. ↑ Maltese Ministries
personal data
SURNAME Galea, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Maltese politician, Speaker of the Maltese Parliament
DATE OF BIRTH 1948