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FREE-FALL
PN in free-fall, decline
across the board for
Labour except Gozo,
Qormi
PAGES 14-15
SUNDAY • 3 APRIL 2022 • ISSUE 1170 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY
PAGE 4
Buttigieg,
Bugeja Said
likely
additions
to Cabinet
PHOTOGRAPHY
JAMES
BIANCHI
FRANCIS IN MALTA PAGE 6
Will Malta live
up to its fame
of being a
hospitable people?
Pope urges fight
against corruption
WOMEN IN THE HOUSE
Did gender quota
mechanism punish
women candidates or
will quotas catalyse
change? PAGES 12-13
PRIME Minister Robert Abela is
expected to appoint prospective
Labour MP Rebecca Buttigieg
and candidate Alicia Bugeja Said
to junior minister roles upon
their election to the House.
Buttigieg, MaltaToday is in-
formed, is favourite to be ap-
pointed parliamentary secretary
within the ministry for home af-
fairs, national security, reforms
and equality.
The anthropologist Alicia
Bugeja Said, a former director of
Malta's fisheries department, is
being tapped for a parliamentary
secretary's post for fishing and
acquaculture within Anton Re-
falo's agriculture ministry.
But Bugeja Said is yet to be
elected from either of the two
casual elections she will be con-
testing – in the third district, she
ended the race with 2,122 votes.
Labour will elect candidate
Rebecca Buttigieg to the House
after a decision from its national
executive to vacate the two seats
held by incumbents Michael
Falzon and Clifton Grima on the
ninth district.
POWER OF INCUMBENCY
PLANNING AUTHORITY
FREE FROM PERMIT
LARGESSE DURING
ELECTION PAGE 10
