Rebecca Buttigieg, Randolph Debattista will enter parliament as Labor MPs
Rebecca Buttigieg and Randolph Debattista will become members of the Labor Party, as a result of decisions taken by the party on random elections.
Buttigieg will run in parliament by a random election in the ninth district while Debattista will be co-opted into parliament after the party ran out of random candidates in that district.
Buttigieg served as communications coordinator within the Interior Ministry in the last legislature while Debattista is editor of the party’s website in English. The Journal.
In a statement on Tuesday evening, the Labor Party announced which districts would be subject to random elections for its candidates, following a meeting of its executive.
The party listed the districts that candidates elected from two districts will be dropping. The decisions were made by secret ballot, he said.
In which districts will the PL hold random elections?
The PL said in a statement that the party executive had decided the following:
Prime Minister Robert Abela, elected from the second and fifth districts, will relinquish his seat on the latter.
Former Health Minister Chris Fearne will relinquish his seat in the fourth district after being also elected in the third.
Clyde Caruana, co-opted into parliament by the Abela administration, was elected in the second and eighth districts. He will drop his seat in the second district.
Owen Bonnici, meanwhile, will drop a seat in the third and retain a seat in the fifth district.
Ian Borg, elected in the sixth and seventh districts, will lower his seat to the former district.
Silvio Schembri, also elected in these two districts, will relinquish his seventh district seat.
Clifton Grima, elected in the ninth and tenth, will drop his seat in the ninth district.
Miriam Dalli will drop the seat of the 11th district and keep the seat of the fifth district.
Michael Falzon will meanwhile drop the seat on the ninth district and keep that in the tenth.
As Falzon and Grima will both relinquish their nine seats in the district and the PL has only had five candidates contesting that district, with two of the remaining three – Edward Zammit Lewis and Stefan Zrinzo Azzopardi – elected in other districts, Rebecca Buttigieg will be automatically promoted to other districts. parliament.
With no more candidates to fill the remaining vacant seats, Labor have the opportunity to recruit a person of their choice in parliament.
The Prime Minister and Leader of the party nominated Debattista for that post, and that decision was approved by the party executive.
Both Buttigieg and Debattista posted short statements on Facebook following the news, in which they said they were honored.
“I have no words to describe the joy I am feeling,” Buttigieg wrote.
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