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Events in the year 2022 in Malta .
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Events in the year 2022 in Malta .
| From | To | Position | Incumbent | Picture |
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| 2019 | Current | President of Malta | George Vella |  |
| 2020 | Current (Re-elected in 2022 [1] ) | Prime Minister of Malta | Robert Abela |  |
| Ongoing | COVID-19 pandemic in Malta | [2] [3] | Event | |
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| January | 4 | Victor Calvagna, Child oncologist (b. 1959 [4] ) dies, aged 63 | [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] | Death |
| 29 | Malta Film Awards | [11] [12] [13] [14] | Event | |
| February | 20 | 2022 General Election's date is announced | [15] [16] [17] [18] | |
| 27 | Maltese Government closes Maltese airspace to Russian aircraft following the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine | [19] [20] [21] [22] | ||
| March | 26 | 2022 General Election occurs | [23] [24] [25] [26] | |
| 27 | Robert Abela and the Labour Party wins the General Elections | [1] [27] [28] | ||
| 28 | Robert Abela is sworn in as the Prime Minister of Malta | [29] | ||
| August | 19 | The annual Festa Lwien event occurs at Ta' Qali Crafts Village | [30] [31] [32] | |
| November | 5 | Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, Former Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1933) dies, aged 89. | [33] | Death |
| 14 | The Beverage Container Refund Scheme was opened. | [34] [35] | Event | |
| 22 | Bernice Cassar, killed by husband (b.1982) is killed, aged 40. | [36] [37] [38] [39] [40] | Death | |
| 26 | A firework factory in Kirkop kills one person with two slightly injured | [41] [42] [43] [44] | Event | |
The politics of Malta takes place within a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Malta is the constitutional head of state. Executive Authority is vested in the President of Malta with the general direction and control of the Government of Malta remaining with the Prime Minister of Malta who is the head of government and the cabinet. Legislative power is vested in the Parliament of Malta which consists of the President of Malta and the unicameral House of Representatives of Malta with the Speaker presiding officer of the legislative body. Judicial power remains with the Chief Justice and the Judiciary of Malta. Since Independence, the party electoral system has been dominated by the Christian democratic Nationalist Party and the social democratic Labour Party.
The Nationalist Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in Malta, along with the Labour Party.
Julie Ann Zahra is a Maltese politician and singer who represented Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest in Istanbul, Turkey, in May 2004. As part of the duo "Julie & Ludwig", their song On Again... Off Again qualified for the final and came 12th out of 36 countries competing. Zahra was also the spokesperson for Malta at the 2015 Contest.
Maltese literature is any literature originating from Malta or by Maltese writers or literature written in the Maltese language.
Maltese bread is a crusty sourdough bread from Malta, usually baked in wood ovens. It is typically eaten with spread olive oil, where the bread is rubbed with tomatoes or tomato paste, drizzled with olive oil and filled with a choice or mix of tuna, olives, capers, onion, bigilla and ġbejna. The practice of making the bread is considered a 'dying art.'
Joseph "Joe" Grech, is a Maltese singer, who was born in Cospicua, Malta. He is best known for introducing the Maltese language to the Eurovision Song Contest 1971, the first appearance from Malta on this pan-European television event.
Cyrus Engerer is a Maltese Member of European Parliament representing the Labour Party. A gay rights activist, he was the leading spokesperson for the Yes campaign at the 2011 Maltese divorce referendum. In 2021 he was tasked with negotiating the European Parliaments historic resolution on the declaration of the European Union as an LGBTQ Freedom zone, in reaction to the establishment of so called "LGBT-Free zones" in Poland. Engerer later went on to write the European Parliaments resolution which condemned the laws in Hungary which effectively banned "LGBT propaganda" in the vicinity of schools. From 2014 till 2019 Engerer was the Prime Minister's special envoy to the European Union. He was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in November 2020. After he joined the Labour Party the Police of Malta opened an investigation against him, leading to his father's arrest, the opening of a court case against him on spreading pornography and the arrest of his mother on election day. He himself was convicted for spreading revenge porn and received a suspended two years term imprisonment. He is the partner of Partit Laburista's Member of Parliament Randolph De Battista.
Although Malta is a small island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea with a small population, it is nonetheless rich in its history and its culture. When in the 1950s, in nearby Italy the San Remo Festival, and later in Switzerland, the Eurovision Song Contest came into existence, Malta soon followed suit by organizing its own National Song Festival.
The 2019 European Parliament election was held in Malta on 25 May 2019. 8 different political parties took part in the election, of which, only 2 won seats in the European Parliament; the Labour Party and the Nationalist Party, with 4 and 2 seats respectively.
Robert Abela is a Maltese lawyer and politician who has served as prime minister of Malta and leader of Labour Party since 2020. The son of former President George Abela, he was elected to Parliament in 2017. Abela was sworn in as prime minister following the resignation of Joseph Muscat on 13 January 2020.
Volt Malta is a political party in Malta and the Maltese branch of Volt Europa, a Eurofederalist and progressive pan-European political party and movement, which advocates for greater European cooperation across Europe.
Marlon Chircop, better known by his artist name Lon Kirkop, is a Maltese novelist, playwright and visual artist. He won The Literary Contest Of Novels For Youth 2020, organised by the National Book Council and Aġenzija Żgħażagħ, with his debut novel Mitt Elf Isem Ieħor: HappyVeganGirlJules later published by Merlin publishers.
The Literary Contest of Novels for Youth is an annual contest organised by the National Youth Agency and the National Book Council. The 2020 edition of the Literary contest was won by the author Lon Kirkop with his manuscript Mitt Elf Isem Ieħor: HappyVeganGirlJules.
Klassi Ghalina & The History of the World is a 2018 Maltese comedy film directed by Alan Cassar and starring the cast of the series Klassi Ghalina, which started airing on the Maltese television station ONE in 2011.
Eve Borg Bonello is a Maltese activist and politician who grew to prominence during the 2019-2020 Maltese protests for her vocal opposition to former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and the corruption scandals that triggered the 2019 Malta political crisis and Muscat's eventual resignation.
ABBA is a socially conservative, religious-right political party in Malta.
Events in the year 2023 in Malta.
Darren Carabott is a Maltese politician serving as a Member of Parliament and as the President of Public Accounts Committee in the Parliament of Malta since March 2022.