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2 unusual facts about Women in Maltese General Elections


Women in Maltese General Elections

The Nationalist Party (Partit Nazzjonalista, PN), on the other hand, fieled its first female candidate, Mary Louise Muscat Manduca, in 1950, but it was Anne Agius Ferrante, for the first time, successfully contested the 1976 elections under PN flag, and was elected in a by-election, It was not before 1987 that another PN female candidate made it to parliament - Giovanna Debono for Gozo.

In 1995 Giovanna Debono was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Family and Social Affairs within the Ministry for Social Development.



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