Ugo Pasquale Mifsud

Monument to Sir Ugo Pasquala Mifsud in Floriana

Sir Ugo Pasquala Mifsud (born September 12, 1889 in Valletta , † February 11, 1942 ibid) was a Maltese politician and two-time Prime Minister of Malta .

Studies and activities as a legal scholar

After graduating from the University of Malta in law in 1910, he established himself as a lawyer.

As such, he developed into a recognized expert in international law , was a member of the International Legal Association and participant in the two-year conferences on problems of international law in Brussels . In 1928 he was president of the Broadcasting and Radio Law Committee at a conference in Warsaw . In the same year was a delegate at a conference of the Parliamentary Society of the British Empire in Canada . During a conference in Oxford on international law in 1932, he was elected a member of the Executive Committee and Vice-President. Finally, in 1934 he was president of a conference on trademarks in Budapest .

Political career

After the National Assembly, through the initiative of Sir Filippo Sciberras, commissioned the drafting of a constitution , Mifsud was the secretary of the working committee. In 1921 he ran successfully as a candidate of the "Unione Populare Maltese" (UPM) for the Legislative Assembly. In the cabinets of the first Prime Minister Joseph Howard and his successor Francesco Buhagiar , he was Minister for Industry and Trade (1921 to 1924), Minister of Post (1921 to 1922 and 1923 to 1924) and Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries (1921 to 1922 and 1923 to 1924) ).

First term as Prime Minister (1924 to 1927)

After Buhagiar's resignation in September 1924, Mifsud became Prime Minister for the first time and was also the youngest Prime Minister of the British Empire. After the merger of the UPM and the PDN of the later Prime Minister Dr. Enrico Mizzi in 1926 for the new “Partito Nazionalista” (PN), he was co-chairman of the PN alongside Mizzi. In August 1927, however, he lost to Gerald Strickland . In his cabinets he was also Minister of Finance (1926 to 1927) and Minister of Justice (1926 to 1927) at times.

On June 17, 1927 Ugo Pasquale Mifsud was beaten to Knight Bachelor and from then on carried the suffix "Sir".

Second term as Prime Minister (1932-1933)

In 1932 he defeated Strickland in a national PN success. On June 21, 1932 he was again Prime Minister of Malta. He held this office until the repeal of the Maltese constitution on November 2, 1933. This made him the last Maltese Prime Minister until the end of the Second World War . As Prime Minister in 1932 he also headed a Maltese delegation to the British Colonial Minister at the time, Sir Philipp Cunliffe Lister . This delegation handed over an unsuccessful memorandum to change Malta's status from colony to Dominion . During his second term as Prime Minister he was again Minister of Justice and Minister of Industry and Trade.

In 1939 Mifsud became a member of the government council. During an emergency debate on the deportation of Maltese nationals due to a British intention on February 9, 1942, he suffered a heart attack and died two days later.

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• Biography on the homepage of the Maltese government
• Biographical data in rulers.org
• Composition of the Maltese Parliament from 1921 to 2003

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Knights and Dames: MA – MIF at Leigh Rayment's Peerage