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Labour’s efforts to entice youths and women to politics were reaping fruits, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said on Saturday. Speaking after the Labour Party secured a historic electoral margin in the local council elections on Friday night, Dr Muscat said hEfforts to attract women, youths to politics paying off - Muscat
Labour’s efforts to entice youths and women to politics were reaping fruits, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said on Saturday. Speaking after the Labour Party secured a historic electoral margin in the local council elections on Friday night, Dr Muscat said he was excited about the results achieved by two PL programmes aimed at attracting youths and women to politics. The PL he said had fielded nearly 100 youths for this election and out of these 16 had been elected as mayors and another 16 had made it to deputy mayor. “We are ensuring that from the seeds we are sowing today, this movement will reap the benefits for years to come,” he said. Dr Muscat said that some 98 per cent of the youth candidates which had come through Forum Zgħazagħ Laburisti’s START campaign, had been elected to local council seats. Woman had also played a strong role in these council elections, with the PL electing 73 women. This meant that 27 per cent for the Labour councilors were women. Around four in every five women who had participated in the PL’s LEAD programme, aimed at attracting women to politics, had been elected. “I cannot but thank [MEP] Miriam Dalli who headed this programme, which was a... Read more