Maltese Appeal To Vatican
(N.Z.P.A. Reuter —Copyright) VALETTA, April 11, The Malta Labour Party leader, Mr Dom Mintoff, said yesterday he was asking the Vatican to pronounce the recent election in Malta unfair and to press the Roman Catholic government of Malta for new and fair elections at an early date.
Mr Mintoff blamed the Roman Catholic Church in Malta for the result of last month’s General Election, in which the Nationalists won 28 seats and the Labour Party 22 in the 50-seat House of Representatives. Mr Mintoff was speaking at his first post-election meeting at Hamrun, just outside Valeta.
He said the election was marred by a pastoral letter of the Archbishop, Sir Michael Gonzi, calling on the people to vote for the candidate
“from whom the church had nothing to fear.” Mr Mintoff claimed priests had withheld absolution from people voting for the Malta Labour Party.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31032, 12 April 1966, Page 15
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148Maltese Appeal To Vatican Press, Volume CV, Issue 31032, 12 April 1966, Page 15
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