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Qormi local council has presented plans to build an underpass crossing the Mrieħel bypass, saying its alternative to the government's flyover proposal would “not take up one centimetre of agricultural land”.  The council has risen to the challenge of proposing an option to the project that would eat up “a minimum of 14 tumoli of fields”, said Qormi mayor Josef Masini Vento. Transport Minister Ian Borg had told him and his councillors he would consider alternatives and the local council promptly commissioned architectural firm DAAA Haus to design what has been termed the Central Bus...

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[WATCH] PN leader calls out 'partisan' use of national broadcaster by government Nationalist leader says country should concentrate on ensuring the national broadcaster is truly impartial rather than closing down party owned stations 24 January 2021, 2:34pm by Karl Azzopardi Nationalist leader Bernard Grech has called out the use of the national broadcaster as tool by government for partisan intentions. Speaking during a political event in Nadur, Gozo, the opposition leader was reacting to a TVM interview on Friday night talkshow ‘Insights’. Grech said the interview was blatantly “part...

Nationalist Party leader Bernard Grech is calling in all his MPs for one-on-one meetings as he maps out a reshuffle of his shadow Cabinet

Increasing women MPs: accelerating history With 95 votes to her name before being eliminated, entrepreneur and Labour candidate Marion Mizzi would have made it to parliament in 2017 if the gender corrective mechanism was applied. Kurt Sansone explains how 18 January 2021, 4:22pm by Kurt Sansone The gender corrective mechanism being debated in parliament is intended to boost the number of MPs of the under-represented sex by a maximum of 12 Parliament would have ended up with 79 seats after the 2017 general election if the gender corrective mechanism being proposed now was applied. Deborah Sch...