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Victor Paul Borg, 26 May 2022
No celebration for gender-corrective mechanism adding 12 women MPs to Malta’s ineffective parliamentVictor Paul Borg, 19 February 2021
Malta’s proposed gender top-up system: Good intentions, questionable means?
In Malta, government receives Venice Commission opinion on proposed reforms
3 June 2021
Proposed reforms in how fines are dished out by regulatory authorities should be implemented through a constitutional amendment, rather than an amendment to the…
Op-ed: Bill presented by Malta's government undermines the constitution and rule of law
4 March 2021
The Constitutional Court of Malta, in line with the consistent and well-established case law of the European Court of Human Rights, has ruled on several occasio…
In Malta, proposed gender corrective mechanism clears second reading in parliament
19 January 2021
A corrective electoral mechanism to boost the number of women MPs has cleared the second stage in parliament with support from both sides of the House.
Parlia…
Malta's electoral commission to be gender-balanced in the future
12 January 2021
Changes are in the pipeline so that Malta’s all-male Electoral Commission will be more gender balanced in the future.
As things stand today, the Electoral Com…
NGO warns of lack of consultation on Malta's constitutional reform
20 October 2020
Rule of law NGO Repubblika has written to President George Vella complaining about a lack of effective consultation on constitutional reform.
It observed tha…
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