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The Maltese Government 2022–2027 is the incumbent Government of Malta (Maltese: Il-Gvern ta' Malta) as from 30 March 2022. It is the second ministry of Prime Minister Robert Abela . The Maltese government is elected through a General Election for a five-year term.
This is a list of members of the Maltese House of Representatives elected to the 14th legislature in the 2022 Maltese general election. [1] [2] In the Parliament, the Labour Party holds a majority of seats after securing a third consecutive victory: 44 are members of the Labour Party, and 35 of the Nationalist Party. [3]
Local council elections were held in Malta and Gozo on 8 June 2024, in tandem with the European Parliament elections. [1] This is the second time that all local councils of Malta shall be elected simultaneously in a single election, following the 2015 reform abolishing the previous system of half-council elections.
Malta, the smallest EU member state, includes around 0.1% of the total EU population. Maltese voters elect 6 MEPs (5 until 2011) to the European Parliament, or one every 69,342 voters - the lowest population-per-seat ratio in the EU, [2] 10 times smaller than the EU average (680,000) and 20 times smaller than the largest European Parliament constituency.
In the run up to the next Maltese general election, expected by 2027, various organizations have carried out opinion polling to gauge voting intention in Malta. Results of such polls are displayed in this article. In the most recent general election, in 2022, the Labour Party won their third consecutive election, and have been in power since 2013.
[6] [7] Prior to the 2017 election, when the Democratic Party won two seats while running in a joint list with the Nationalist Party, the last time a party other than the Labour Party or the Nationalist Party won seats was in 1962. [8] [9] In 2018, the government of Malta lowered the national voting age to 16. [10]
The Financing of Political Parties Act, which passed in 2015 and came into effect on 1 January 2016, introduced the requirement for political parties to register themselves with the Electoral Commission and declare all donations in order to be able to field candidates in general elections and European Parliament elections. [1]
The Cabinet of Malta is the collective decision-making body of the Government of Malta, composed of the Prime Minister and a number of ministers who are selected by the Prime Minister from the elected members of the House of Representatives to head government departments.