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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/121522| Title: | So close and yet so far : the Malta Labour Party’s cultural politics during the 1970s and 1980s |
| Other Titles: | Revisiting labour history |
| Authors: | Gravina, Joseph |
| Keywords: | Malta Labour Party -- History -- 20th century Political parties -- Malta -- History -- 20th century Malta -- Politics and government -- History -- 20th century Mintoff, Dom, 1916-2012 General Workers Union (Malta) Catholic Church -- Malta -- History -- 20th century Unemployment -- Malta -- History -- 20th century |
| Issue Date: | 2012 |
| Publisher: | Horizons Publications |
| Citation: | Gravina, J. (2012). So close and yet so far: the Malta Labour Party’s cultural politics during the 1970s and 1980s. In J. Chircop (Ed.), Revisiting Labour history (pp. 276-300). Malta: Horizons Publications. |
| Abstract: | This essay focuses on the period 1971-1987 during which time the Malta Labour Party (MLP), as it was then called, was in government three times. In 1971 and 1976 it was elected with both a majority of votes in the country and a majority of seats in the House of Representatives. In 1981 it obtained a majority of seats in the House but a minority of votes. In 1987, following changes in the Constitution ensuring that not simply the success of individual candidates but the total number of first-preference votes for political party candidates should determine the number of seats a party has in the House, the Nationalist Party (PN) won both a majority of votes and a majority of seats. [excerpt] |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/121522 |
| ISBN: | 9789995738204 |
| Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacEduAOCAE |
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