10 women MPs, five on behalf of the Labour Party and five on behalf of the Nationalist Party, have been elected in the 2026 general election.
Alicia Bugeja Said, Rosianne Cutajar, Miriam Dalli, Julia Farrugia and Alison Zerafa Civelli have been elected for the Labour Party.
Malta leads the EU in disagreeing that measures such as the gender quota system can solve the underrepresentation of women in politics, despite having a gender quota system itself.
Gender quotas have become an important mechanism for promoting gender equality in political representation.
Myriam Spiteri Debono, a notary and former parliamentary speaker, is set to become the 11th President of Malta on 4 April.
Just four women were elected during the 2022 general election but a deeper analysis also shows that women contesting on the Labour ticket obtained almost 20,000 first-count votes, which compares very well with the 14,000 first preferences obtained in 2017.
Only four women were elected to Parliament in Malta’s general election, down from the eight female MPs elected in 2017.
The court has turned down a constitutional case filed by independent candidate Arnold Cassola against government over the gender corrective mechanism approved by parliament last April.
Equality Parliamentary Secretary Rosianne Cutajar closes the Second Reading debate on the gender corrective mechanism.
