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Dom Mintoff
Dominic Mintoff was a Maltese socialist politician, architect, and civil engineer who was leader of the Labour Party from 1949 to 1984, and was Prime Minister of Malta from 1955 to 1958, when Malta was still a British colony, and again, following independence, from 1971 to 1984. His tenure as Prime Minister saw the creation of a comprehensive welfare state, nationalisation of large corporations, a…
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culture · Prime Minister of Malta (1955–1958, 1971–1984) · politician · architect · journalist · civil engineer · head of government · also Dom Mintoff, Dominic Mintoff, Dominic "Dom" Mintoff, Mintoff
Born 6 August 1916 · Died 20 August 2012 · Q167307
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2026· 1 entry
2013· 2 entries
The Malta Independent: Dom Mintoff: Creating a monument to the man
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The main square in front the church of Our Lady of Mercy in Bir id-Deheb, Żejtun (where Dom and Moyra Mintoff were married) was renamed Dom Mintoff Square
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2012· 5 entries
Times of Malta: Dom Mintoff: a man fascinated by Moses
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The Washington Post: Deaths of note: Dom Mintoff, Simon Gourdine, Philip E. Moriarty
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The Boston Globe: Dom Mintoff, longtime fiery socialist leader of Malta, 96
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The Malta Independent: Dom Mintoff Passes away
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Died 2012-08-20.
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2008· 2 entries
Times of Malta: Dom Mintoff to stand for election?
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Rapprochement with Labour was made after making brief appearances during the leadership race between George Abela and Joseph Muscat
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1998· 1 entry
When the Labour government was negotiating the lease of sealine to be developed in a yacht marina in Birgu
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1984· 2 entries
While retaining his parliamentary seat and remaining a government backbencher
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(although he retained his parliamentary seat and substantial influence over the party), opening the way for his deputy prime minister, Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, to succeed him
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1981· 1 entry
Amid allegations of gerrymandering, the Party managed to hold on to a parliamentary majority, even though the opposition Nationalist Party managed an absolute majority of votes
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1979· 2 entries
And the attendant losses in rent, were coupled with a policy of Cold War brinkmanship which saw Mintoff seek to play rivals off each other and look increasingly east and south, courting Mao Zedong, Kim Il Sung, Nicolae C
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The last British troops left Malta in accordance with the 1972 agreement
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1975· 1 entry
Mintoff ordered that the Royal cyphers be ground off Maltese pillar boxes
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1971· 3 entries
Career landmark: Minister for Foreign Affairs (1971–1981).
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Immediately set about renegotiating Malta's defence agreement with Britain
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Malta (1971–1984).
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1969· 1 entry
Dom Mintoff was elected as Prime Minister in the 1971 general election and immediately set out to re-negotiate the post-Independence military and financial agreements with the United Kingdom
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1965· 1 entry
Career landmark: Representative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (1965–1967).
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1962· 1 entry
And 1966 due to the influence of the clerical prohibition on the deeply religious Maltese population, and boycotted the Independence Day celebrations in 1964 due to wide-ranging disagreements with the substantial amount
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1958· 1 entry
And became a strident advocate of decolonisation and anti-imperialism
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1955· 1 entry
Career landmark: Prime Minister of Malta (1955–1958).
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1947· 1 entry
Was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Works and Reconstruction, overseeing large post-War public projects
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1939· 1 entry
Awarded Rhodes Scholarship (1939).
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1916· 1 entry
Born 1916-08-06.
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