Labour Party
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political party in Malta
Key facts
- Abbreviation
- PL
- Leader
- Robert Abela
- President
- Alex Sciberras
- Governing body
- National Executive
- Spokesperson
- Norma Saliba
- Deputy leader for parliamentary affairs
- Ian Borg
- Deputy leader for party affairs
- Alex Agius Saliba
- Founder
- William Savona
- Founded
- 15 March 1921 ; 105 years ago ( 15 March 1921 )
- Headquarters
- Ċentru Nazzjonali Laburista, 77 Triq Mile End, il-Ħamrun
- Newspaper
- Kullħadd
- Think tank
- Fondazzjoni IDEAT
- Student wing
- PULSE (de-facto)
- Youth wing
- Labour Youths
- Women s wing
- Labour Women
- Pioneer organization
- Brigata Laburista (1959-2008)
- Media arm
- One Productions
- Elderly wing
- Labour Veterans
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- partitlaburista.org
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- Commons category
- Labour Party (Malta)
- inception
- 1920-10-15
- sRGB color hex triplet
- EE3224
- number of seats in assembly
- 3
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The Labour Party (Maltese: Partit Laburista, PL), formerly known as the Malta Labour Party (Maltese: Partit tal-Ħaddiema, MLP), is the governing political party in Malta, and one of the two major parties alongside the Nationalist Party. It sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum.
The party was founded in 1921 as the Chamber of Labour by a small group of trade unionists. Ideologically, the party was orientated towards democratic socialism and other left-wing stances until the early 1990s, when it followed the lead of like-minded Western social-democratic parties like Britain's New Labour. The party still claims to be democratic-socialist in their party programme. Under the leadership of Joseph Muscat, the party shifted to a more centrist position, adopting Third Way policies. A formerly Eurosceptic party, it claims to hold pro-European stances and is a member of the Party of European Socialists, and the Socialist International.