Vincent Moran

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Vincent Moran (born January 27, 1932 in Cospicua ; † November 20, 2018 in Pietà ) was a Maltese politician of the Partit Laburista (PL), who was a member of the House of Representatives for 34 years and Minister of Health between 1976 and 1987.

Life

Vincent Moran, son of John Moran and Carmela Debono, attended the Lyceum of the Royal University of Malta and joined the PL ( Partit Laburista ) as a student in 1948 , for whose youth organization LYL (Labor Youth League) he became involved. A study of medicine at the Royal University of Malta joined it in 1956 with a Doctor of Medicine (Doctor of Medicine) from; afterwards he worked as a doctor. In 1958 he became a member of the National Executive Committee of the Partit Laburista.

In the parliamentary election on February 17, 1962 , Moran was elected to the House of Representatives (Kamra Tad-Deputati) for the PL in constituency 3 for the first time , and in the election on March 31, 1966 and in the election on June 17, 1971 in this constituency re-elected. After his re-election in the election on September 24, 1976 , he was appointed on September 25, 1976 as Minister of Health and Environment in the Mintoff III cabinet . He was also in the election on December 18, 1981 for the Labor Party again a member of the Kamra Tad-Deputati , where he was now elected in constituency 4. After the election, he took over from December 20, 1981 to September 3, 1983 in the Mintoff IV cabinet and between September 3, 1983 and December 22, 1984 in the Mintoff V cabinet, the office of Minister for Health and Environment.

After the resignation of Prime Minister Dom Mintoff on December 22, 1984, he served from December 22, 1984 to May 12, 1987 in the Mifsud Bonniċi cabinet as Minister of Health and Environment. As Minister of Health, he set up the National Health Service in its current form, expanded St. Luke's Hospital and was also responsible for the construction of the Karin Grech Hospital , which was built as a pediatric and maternity hospital . In addition, the so-called Half-Way House was set up in the mental hospital as well as the heart disease ward CCU (Coronary Care Unit) for operations that were previously carried out abroad. In 1982 the proposal to establish an institute for the elderly in Malta was adopted by the United Nations . But it was also during his tenure that private hospitals had to close after the government insisted on taking over some of their beds. Most notorious was the case of the “Blue Sisters” who ran the Zammit Clapp Hospital and were forcibly deported in 1980.

In the parliamentary elections on May 13, 1987 , he was again elected to the House of Representatives in constituency 4 and was re-elected in the February 22, 1992 election. He was a member of the Kamra Tad-Deputati from the first electoral term to the end of the seventh electoral term on September 23, 1996 for 34 years. In May 1995 he resigned from the faction of the Partit Laburista out after allegations that he had to arrange for abortions in Sicily have been involved. Most recently he was a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe between May 4, 1992 and June 26, 1995 as representative of Malta .

In 1996, along with a number of other politicians, he received the commemorative medal for the 75th anniversary of the Maltese self-government. He was married to Margaret Debono from 1963.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cabinet Mintoff III
  2. ^ Cabinet Mintoff IV / Cabinet Mintoff V
  3. ^ Mifsud Bonniċi's cabinet
  4. ^ Entry on the homepage of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
  5. ↑ Medal to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the reintroduction of self-government (1996) ( Memento from April 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Moran, Vincent
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moran, Vincent C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Maltese medic and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Cospicua
DATE OF DEATH 20th November 2018
Place of death Pietà