“Minister Bartolo will also be remembered for being a proponent of civil rights in Malta, co-sponsoring a Parliamentary Bill for the introduction of divorce legislation in Malta.”

Evarist Bartolo is a Maltese politician within the Labour Party, and until very recently, he has served as the Minister for Foreign and European Affairs.

He served as Malta’s Minister for Education and Employment between 2013 and January 2020, with another term as Minister for Education and Culture between 1996 and 1998.

Born in Mellieha in 1952, he served as a member of the Maltese Parliament between 1992 and 2022.

In the general elections held in June 2017, he was again elected from two districts, the 10th (Gzira, Pembroke, Sliema, St Julians) and the 12th (Mellieha, St Paul’s Bay and Naxxar).