#MALTA: MP Proposes Menstrual Cycle Leave Bill

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Parliament should consider introducing menstrual cycle leave, Labour MP Roasianne Cutajar said. 

Speaking in Malta's parliament, the former parliamentary secretary for civil rights said that many women were unable to go to school or work because of period pains. 

Cutajar said she chose to raise the topic after speaking to a young woman from Qormi who lost her job because she had to miss work owing to pain.  

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#EU: European Parliament Elects Youngest President

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Center-right Malta lawmaker Roberta Metsola, chosen this week as only the third woman to head the European Parliament, is viewed as a political moderate despite controversy over her anti-abortion stance, a rarity in European politics.

Elected on the day she turns 43, the politician from the European Union’s smallest nation becomes the youngest president ever to run the chamber.

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#MALTA: Parliament Votes To Allow Same-Sex Marriage

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Malta's parliament has voted to allow same-sex couples to marry, three years after passing a law permitting civil partnerships in the overwhelmingly Catholic island nation. Lawmakers gave near-unanimous approval to the bill, which represents a major step for LGBT rights on the island.

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#MALTA: Court Rules Against Labour Pty; Nationalist Pty Retains Seats Given In Last Election

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The Constitutional Court has ruled against a Labour Party argument that the Nationalist Party should not have been given two extra seats in parliament following the general election. The Constitutional Court has ruled against a Labour Party argument that the Nationalist Party should not have been given two extra seats in parliament following the general election.

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#MALTA: Member of Parliament Threatens Female Colleague With Violence During Parliament Session

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Labour MP Joe Debono Grech can be heard on live TV telling a female member of parliament, Marlene Farrugia, "I'll come and beat you up" during a raucous session in which she allegedly accused him of being "corrupt." Farrugia resigned from the Labour Party last month.