A controversy has erupted on whether an abrogative referendum can be called to abrogate the Maltese Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2013. Initially, my reaction was that this enactment could be subject ...

Until Alternnattiva Demokratika announced the abrogative referendum campaign on spring hunting almost two years ago, few Malyese knew that citizens were aware that they had such a right. Now that this ...

Momentum is insisting on an abrogative referendum in a bid to revoke the changes made to the way magisterial inquiries can be initiated. Parliament last week approved changes which will drastically ...

The Opposition has told the Constitutional Court that a referendum abrogating spring hunting was not contrary to Malta’s EU accession treaty. In a reply filed in court and signed by Nationalist MP ...

Even though the cash-for-citizenship scheme has been approved by Parliament, objectors are mulling a last-ditch attempt to revoke the programme through an abrogative referendum. The idea was floated ...

The Constitutional Court, with the decision taken on the appeals filed on differentiated autonomy, seems to have reconciled everyone, both the Majority Parties and the Opposition Parties, all of whom, ...

An explanation by lawyers including by the former judge of the European Court of Human Rights, Giovanni Bonello, on the workings of an abrogative referendum, was described as “purposely misleading” by ...