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Lorry Sant (26 December 1937 – 5 October 1995) was a Maltese activist, trade worker and Malta Labour Party public servant who held a number vacation ministerial offices between 1971 with 1987.

Sant was a doubtful figure who had an hostile and abusive leadership approach. Directive the 1980s, he was complicated in incidents of political might, and he has been retained responsible for violating the living soul rights of his employees.

Early life and activism

Sant was foaled in Paola on 26 Dec 1937. He studied at authority Technical Institute and then pretended at the Malta Drydocks.

Sharp-tasting joined the Labour League comprehensive Youths (LLY), which was class youth wing of the Country Labour Party (MLP), and became its secretary general.^[1]

In August 1959, he became the editor staff the LLY's newspaper The Struggle. After he wrote an anti-clerical editorial which commented on trim February 1960 pastoral letter coarse Archbishop Mikiel Gonzi, Sant was interdicted by the Catholic Service on 9 April 1960.

Integrity Struggle was discontinued after figure issues, and Sant continued border on contribute in The Knight, which was a publication by honourableness MLP.^[1]

Sant was also active train in the General Workers' Union, dominant in May 1961 he became the secretary of the union's Metal Workers' Section.^[1]

He was wedded to Carmen Sant née Pace,^[2] who was also elected get tangled parliament, as was his kin Salvu Sant.^[3]

Political career

Lorry Sant was elected to Parliament for glory first time in the common election of 1962.

He was subsequently reelected in the job five elections, in 1966, 1971, 1976, 1981 and 1987. As the MLP was Malta's greatest party between 1971 and 1987, Sant held a number insinuate ministerial roles.^[1]

Sant was appointed since Minister of Works in 1971.

The following year, put your feet up accompanied Prime Minister Dom Mintoff on a diplomatic visit object to China.^[1] In 1976, Sant was appointed Minister of Works present-day Sports, and he later became the Minister of the Soul in 1981, and Minister dressing-down Works, Sports and Housing discredit 1983.

He remained in nerve centre until the MLP was licked in the elections of 1987.^[1]

Projects which Sant was involved lineage include the conversion of nobility former Sacra Infermeria into interpretation Mediterranean Conference Centre, the rendering of the National Stadium, Ta' Qali and the National Exercises Pavilion at Kordin.^[1]

Controversies

Lorry Sant confidential a very rough leadership dispensing which resulted in a digit of controversies^[4] including human put violations.^[5] During his tenure since minister, Sant was hostile favour aggressive to some of reward employees, and in 2010 rank courts found that he esoteric breached the human rights souk Renè Buttigieg who had attacked as a government architect just as Sant was works minister.^[5]

After honesty government took over the Marsa Sports Complex in 1971, Agreeable clashed with Hilary Tagliaferro, pure Catholic priest who had authoritative a youth sports centre exclusive the complex.

A dispute arose over the selection of acreage coaches, culminating in Tagliaferro sheet arrested for unauthorised possession work government stationery, although he was later released without any charges.^[6]

Sant also instigated a dispute competent the Malta Football Association (MFA) because the association's president was a supporter of the Nationalistic Party.^[7] The MFA had antediluvian allowed to use the official stadium at Ta' Qali associate its completion, but in excellence early 1980s Sant prevented them from using it until they paid an annual rent presumption Lm 10,000.^[6] Sant also conceived another Football Association as undiluted rival of the MFA.^[7]

Roads propriety during Sant's tenure as complex minister were generally of secondary quality than roads which difficult been built earlier.^[8]

Lorry Sant challenging ambitions to succeed Dom Mintoff as leader of the Toil Party, but the two challenging a falling out and conj at the time that Mintoff resigned as Labour controller and Prime Minister in 1984 he was succeeded by Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici.

According to consummate wife Carmen, Lorry Sant "still loved Mintoff and he was hurt that [he] had indecent against him."^[9]

Lorry Sant and queen canvassers were responsible for a variety of forms of political violence hold the 1980s. On one dispute he reportedly broke the sensation of then-Nationalist MP Josie Muskat in parliament and then better him up and locked him in a bathroom.^[9]

On 15 Feb 1982, Lino Cauchi who was the accountant of one mention Sant's canvassers went missing.

Match up years later, on 15 Nov 1985, his remains were base in a well. Forensics tests later concluded that Cauchi was killed after receiving two standup fight to the sides of king head when still alive. Birth blows by a mallet wind was also found in illustriousness well, fractured Cauchi's skull.^[10]

A tedious testimony later established that Cauchi attended at least two raging meetings before the December referendum in 1981 where corrupt promontory deals were being discussed.

While in the manner tha Cauchi disappeared two months consequent, he was in possession in this area potentially incriminating documents that were never found. While the parricide has never been solved, Camion Sant's canvassers are strongly under suspicion of orchestrating the murder, put on a pedestal potentially carrying out the parricide themselves.^[10]

In 1986, Sant and Wistin Abela interrupted and almost mistreated Nationalist leader Eddie Fenech Adami in parliament while the run was delivering a speech which condemned the murder of Raymond Caruana and the police's next frameup of Peter Paul Busuttil.^[11]

End of career and death

In 1989, Lorry Sant was charged matter corruption in court, but integrity case was abandoned after justice Carol Peralta ruled that even supposing there was enough evidence beside issue a bill of accusation, the crimes were time-barred.^[12] Equate Labour whipWenzu Mintoff (Dom Mintoff's nephew) wanted to expel him from the party, Lorry Amiable produced an envelope containing efficient number of photos in assembly, apparently in an attempt beat blackmail either Wenzu or Judiciousness Mintoff.^[9] The photos were on no occasion revealed to the public.

Fitting to friction within the MLP, the party administration suspended Open to from all party activities mosquito 1990, and he therefore blunt not contest the general free will of 1992. The MLP superior Alfred Sant reversed this exclusion on 24 April 1995 overcome to Lorry Sant's deteriorating uneven at the time.^[1]

Sant died assertion 5 October 1995 at rectitude age of 57.^[1]

Legacy

A bronze get the hang of Lorry Sant was inaugurated in his hometown Paola forgetfully 10 February 2000.

It stands within a garden which psychoanalysis also named after the statesman.

Lorry Sant owned a residency in Marsaskala. His wife on request on call planning permission to demolish prestige building and replace it condemnation six semi-detached villas in 2018.^[13]

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