Eddie Fenech Adami is without doubt one of the most notable political figures in Malta’s history. He entered the political scene as a Nationalist MP in 1969, and became the party’s leader after Gorg Borg Olivier in 1977.
His style of leadership generated popular support to the point that the Nationalist party won the 1981 election in terms of votes, but did not acquire the necessary amount of parliamentary seats to take government.
A constitutional reform followed, and Fenech Adami took the role of Prime Minister in 1987 – one which he held till 2004, save for a 22 month gap between 1996 and 1998 when Alfred Sant’s Labour Party took government. Fenech Adami after resigning from the Nationalist party on his 70th party was chosen as the seventh President of the republic between 2004 and 2009.
Today is Fenech Adami’s 85th birthday; and given this, The Malta Independent asked four figures about what Eddie Fenech Adami’s political legacy on Malta truly is.
Read what Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, Opposition Leader Adrian Delia, Former Minister Louis Galea, Professor Joseph M. Pirotta, had to say on The Malta Independent .
