Parliament now has two disabled MPs who have never hidden this attribute from public view.
They were both socially active before entering the political foray,
The Labour Party confirmed on Friday that Oliver Scicluna, chairman of the Commission for the Rights of Persons with Disability, will be co-opted into Parl
Oliver Scicluna, chairman of the Commission for the Rights of Persons with Disability, is expected to be co-opted to parliament, filling the seat vacated by the surprise resignation of newly re-elected MP Gavin Gulia on Wednesday.
Sources told
Times of Malta that Scicluna had been hand-picked by Prime Minister Robert Abela for the post, beating other potential candidates such as Żebbuġ mayor Malcolm Galea.
It will be Scicluna’s first foray into party politics, after several years of work within the disability sector.
Scicluna is a pioneer within that field, having founded a number of disability rights NGOs and then advising the government on its national disability policy.
Works on a €32 million disability hub project in Naxxar have been at a standstill for at least 12 months, with work grinding to a halt in 2020, and an excavation site left untouched for months