Talk:Nationalist Party (Malta)
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The suggestion has been made that, until the end of WWII, the Nationalist Party had elements of being a fascist or clerical-fascist movement. Thoughts? -- Stlemur 20:21, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
The slander has often been made, never substantially proven. None of the "features" of fascism you mention are evident in the pre-War Nationalist Party. It was anti-colonial (rather than exalting the nation), it never stressed loyalty to a single leader (between 1926 and 1940 it actually had two co-leaders), it was not totalitarian (it was constitutionalist demanding "quasi-dominium" status from Britain) and it hardly had a socio-economic programme.
Its collusion with the Maltese Church was incidental. Late in the 19th century Party founder and leader Fortunato Mizzi ran into trouble with the Maltese Church for his associations with Italian risorgimentisti (the Bishops went as far as to call him "inimicus homini") and according to Mintoff himself peace was made only in 1929 with the Latern Concordat between Vatican and Italian state.
Same goes for whatever sympathies they had with Mussolini. It was inevitable that with the language question the Nationalists would be Italophiles but that did not make them fascists. -- DemDem
[edit] Disagree
I disagree totally on placing the article under fascism. Kindly indicate exact proof! Maltesedog 16:01, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Sections
Could someone with knowledge of Maltese politics please split both this and the Malta Labour Party article into sections describing their history and their current politics, respectively? Right now it seems a bit.. cluttered, and I'm certainly not the right person to fix it since I have no idea about Maltese politics. Joffeloff 13:06, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
Done Maltesedog 06:43, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
The Nationalist Party won Malta's adhesion to the European Union supporting a YES vote in a national referendum beating the Malta Labour Party who surprisingly, being a traditionally leftist party, opted for a NO vote. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Censutabone (talk • contribs) 21:26, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Centre-Right redundant?
In this edit, User:Marcus1234 wrote saying they are centre-right is redundant, since they Christian democrats. Maybe it's my ignorance, but the tie-in is not exactly obvious to me, nor clear from the linked articles. Christian Democracy says that European parties tend to be closer to the political center, or center-right., although it does not link to Centre-Right. One might think the party could be either center or right. I can't comment on whether the link you removed is correct or informative, but it seems like it may not necessarily be redundant. 「ѕʀʟ·✎」 21:29, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
