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Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici was born on 17 July, 1933 in Cospicua, Crown Colony of Malta, is a Maltese politician (1933–2022). Discover Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 89 years old?

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Occupation Politician, lawyer
Age 89 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 17 July 1933
Birthday 17 July
Birthplace Cospicua, Crown Colony of Malta
Date of death 5 November, 2022
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Nationality Malta

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1933

Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, (17 July 1933 – 5 November 2022) was a Maltese politician who served as Prime Minister of Malta from December 1984 to May 1987.

Karmenu was born on 17 July 1933 at Cospicua to Lorenzo Mifsud Bonnici and Catherine Buttigieg, in a family strongly anchored in the Nationalist Party.

His brother Antoine was a Nationalist MP and Parliamentary Secretary while a cousin, Ugo Mifsud Bonnici, was a Nationalist MP, Minister and President of Malta.

Karmenu had two sisters and three brothers, one of whom (Antoine) is a Nationalist member of Parliament and another was an Archpriest.

He never married.

1954

Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici studied at the Lyceum and graduated in Law at the University of Malta in 1954.

1960

In the 1960s, at the height of the dispute between the Maltese Church and the Labour Party, he was an official of a number of lay organisations connected to the Church, including the Catholic Social Guild and the Young Christian Workers Movement (also as editorial board member of their Il-Haddiem newspaper), and supported the "diocesan junta" of Church organisations opposing Dom Mintoff and his Party.

He would later claim to be "a Nationalist by birth, but a Labourite through free choice and conviction".

1967

He also later studied taxation and industrial law at the University College of London in 1967–68, and was afterwards a lecturer in Industrial and Fiscal Law at the University of Malta.

1969

In 1969, he got a job as a local consultant of Malta's General Workers' Union, playing a role in the struggle of the trade union and the Labour party against the Nationalist government-proposed Industrial Relations Bill, which foresaw sanctions up to imprisonment for workers on strike.

1970

He continued his engagement with the Labour Party throughout the 1970s.

1980

In May 1980, Dom Mintoff appointed Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici as deputy leader of the Labour Party, which was confirmed by the party conference.

1981

Mifsud Bonnici managed the party campaign for the 1981 elections - the third and last victory of Mintoff's Labour.

In October 1981, Mintoff designated Mifsud Bonnici as his successor, again confirmed by the party conference.

1982

Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici was thus co-opted into Parliament in May 1982 upon the resignation of Paul Xuereb, and assigned the Ministry of Employment and Social Services, without ever standing for election.

This gained him the nickname of "Doctor Zero".

Several commentators consider that Mintoff hand-picked Mifsud Bonnici to prevent the election of other, less amenable, internal rivals at the helm of the party.

1983

In September 1983, Mifsud Bonnici was named Senior Deputy Prime Minister and assigned the Ministry of Education, a responsibility he held until 1986, during which period he was in charge of the introduction of free education for all, which had led to a deep dispute between the government and the Church.

1984

On 22 December 1984, following Mintoff's resignation, Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici was sworn in as Prime Minister, thus becoming the first Maltese Prime Minister since independence to be sworn in without actually standing for a general election.

He also maintained the porfolios of Minister of Interior and of Education.

Mifsud Bonnici's tenure as Prime Minister was seen as a continuation of the Dom Mintoff years (he even retained the same Cabinet).

In 1984, a demonstration by some workers of the Malta Drydocks, at which Mifsud Bonnici was present, climaxed when the offices of the Maltese Curia were ransacked after the demonstration had ended.

He responded by calling the workers "the aristocracy of the working class".

1985

In 1985, Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici was the lead negotiator in the hijacking of EgyptAir Flight 648 in which 60 of the 92 passengers were killed.

1987

Political violence persisted, heightened and was made more intense by the fact that the 1987 elections were approaching.

Relations with the church deteriorated further on two fronts: the enactment of a Bill to seize church property without compensation, and attempts by the government to take control of church schools.

Mifsud Bonnici narrowly lost the 1987 elections

and was made to carry most of the blame for the defeat - which might have had a role in the heart attack he suffered soon after.

1992

He remained Leader of the Opposition until 1992 when, following a second electoral defeat, he resigned and was succeeded by Alfred Sant.

1996

He held his seat until the following election in 1996.

He did not contest any general elections thereafter.

2003

In 2003, during the referendum campaign for the accession of Malta to the European Union, Mifsud Bonnici with other labourites launched the Campaign for National Independence (CNI) and later joined the Front Maltin Inqumu (Maltese Arise Front) to oppose Malta's EU membership.

They proposed instead an alternative association agreement, or "partnership", reviving an earlier Mintoff vision of Malta as the "Switzerland of the Mediterranean".

2005

Two years later he also opposed the ratification of the European Constitution, but his motion at the Labour Party's General Conference in 2005 was rejected.

Subsequently, he maintained a low profile within the party while retaining a role in the CNI.

Mifsud Bonnici died on 5 November 2022, at the age of 89.