Peter Isola

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Peter Joseph Isola , OBE , GMH (* 1929 in Gibraltar ; † January 28, 2006 ) was a politician from Gibraltar.

Life

Isola began after the visit of the company founded in 1593 Stonyhurst College to study law at Pembroke College of Oxford University and was then as a lawyer working. He was elected on September 21, 1956 to a member of the seven-member Legislative Council (Legislative Council) and re-elected in the elections on September 24, 1959 and September 11, 1964 with the second-best result. For his services he was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).

After the adoption of the new constitution (Gibraltar Constitution Order 1969) , Isola was elected to the newly created assembly house of Gibraltar (Gibraltar House of Assembly) in the elections on July 30, 1969 for the Isola Group founded by him and his brother William Martin Isola . His Isola Group then formed a coalition with Robert Peliza's Integration with Britain Party (IWBP) . After he became Chief Minister of Gibraltar on August 6, 1969 , Isola was appointed Deputy Chief Minister in his cabinet on August 28, 1969, while his brother William Isola became Minister of Tourism and Community Services.

In the subsequent early elections on June 23, 1972, the IWBP of Periza and the Isola Group merged. However, this only won seven of the 15 mandates, while the Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights (AACR) won eight mandates, so that its chairman Joshua Abraham Hassan became the new Chief Minister. After the dissolution of the IWBP in 1975 he joined the Gibraltar Democratic Movement (GDM) under the chairmanship of Joe Bossano and was re-elected for this member of the House of Assembly in the elections on September 29, 1976 . After the GDM was dissolved, Joe Bossano founded the Gibraltar Socialist Labor Party (GSLP) in 1978, while Isola and Maurice Xiberras founded the Democratic Party for a British Gibraltar (GPBG) that emerged from the GDM . After Xiberras resigned his parliamentary mandate and chaired the GPBG in 1979, Isola became the new party leader. From the elections on 6 February 1980, went Democratic Party for a British Gibraltar with six out of 15 seats as the second strongest force so that Isola of Bossano the post of opposition leader (Leader of the Opposition) took over.

In the elections that followed on January 26, 1984, Isola, who was also awarded the Gibraltar Medallion of Honor (GMH), ran again for a seat in the House of Assembly , but with 2946 votes received only 17th place to be awarded 15 parliamentary seats and thus left parliament after 28 years. After this defeat, he withdrew from politics and resumed his legal work as a partner in the law firm Isola & Isola . The Democratic Party for a British Gibraltar itself disbanded in 1985.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Legislative Council Election, Friday 21st September 1956
  2. ^ Legislative Council Election, September 24th, 1959
  3. ↑ Legislative Council Election (Friday 11th September 1964)
  4. ↑ GENERAL ELECTION: ELECTION TO THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, Wednesday 30th July 1969
  5. ↑ GENERAL ELECTION: ELECTION TO THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, Saturday 23rd June 1972
  6. ↑ GENERAL ELECTION: ELECTION TO THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, Wednesday 29th September 1976
  7. ↑ GENERAL ELECTION: ELECTION TO THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, Wednesday 6th February 1980
  8. ↑ GENERAL ELECTION: ELECTION TO THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, Thursday 26th January 1984
personal data
SURNAME Isola, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Isola, Peter Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Gibraltar politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Gibraltar
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 2006