Progressive Constitutionalist Party (Malta)

Political party in Malta

Progressive Constitutional Party

Maltese: Partit Progressiv Kostituzzjonali (Maltese name never used)

Leader| Mabel Strickland
Founded| 1953
Dissolved| 1971
Split from| Constitutional Party
Newspaper| Times of Malta (de facto)
Ideology| British Monarchism
Pro-Dominion status
Anti-Communism
Religion| Roman Catholicism

The Progressive Constitutionalist Party (PCP) was a political party in Malta between 1953 and 1971.

Politics of Malta

Republic

* Constitution
* President (list)

Myriam Spiteri Debono

Government

* Prime Minister (list)

Robert Abela
* Deputy Prime Minister (list)

Ian Borg
* Cabinet (current)

Parliament

* Speaker (list)

Angelo Farrugia
* Deputy Speaker (list)

David Agius
* Leader of the House (list)

Ian Borg
* Leader of the Opposition (list)

Bernard Grech

Judiciary

* Chief Justice (list)

Mark Chetcuti
* Law Courts and Tribunals
* Commission for the
Administration of Justice

Political parties

* Labour Party
* Nationalist Party
* AD+PD
* People's Party
* ABBA (political party)
* Volt Malta

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* Ministry for Foreign Affairs, European Affairs and Trade

Minister: Ian Borg

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## History

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The PCP was established in 1953 by Mabel Strickland, owner of the Times of Malta and daughter of Gerald Strickland, the founder of the Constitutional Party.[1] It was a split from the Constitutional Party, which Strickland had left in protest against its support for the Labour Party's policy of integration with the United Kingdom.[1]

The party failed to win a seat in elections in 1953 and 1955, but won a single seat in the 1962 elections. However, it lost its seat in the post-independence 1966 elections. After failing to win a seat in the 1971 elections it subsequently disappeared.[2]

## Ideology

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The party promoted loyalty to the Catholic church and the British Crown, but advocated dominion status for Malta to avoid any cultural assimilation or secularisation that integration with the United Kingdom would bring.[2] It also held a strict anti-communist line.[1]

## Electoral history

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Election  | Leader  | Votes  | %  | Seats  | +/–  | Rank  | Status

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1953 | Mabel Strickland | 5,128  |

4.33%

0 / 40

| New | 4th  | Extra-Parliamentary
1955 | 3,649  |

3.02%

0 / 40

|  0  |  3rd
1962 | 7,290  |

4.84%

1 / 40

|  1  |  5th  | "Umbrella" Coalition
PN-PDN-PĦN-PCP
1966 | 2,009  |

1.4%

0 / 40

|  1  |  4th  | Extra-Parliamentary
1971 | 1,756  |

1.04%

0 / 40

|  0  |  3rd
Party dissolved

## References

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1. ^ a b c Vincent E McHale (1983) Political parties of Europe, Greenwood Press, p635 ISBN 0-313-23804-9
2. ^ a b McHale, p636

## External links

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* Progressive Constitutional Party's Principles and Programme

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Political parties in Malta

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* Labour Party (36)
* Nationalist Party (28)

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* ABBA
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Defunct/inactive parties|

* Alleanza Bidla
* Christian Workers' Party
* Communist Party of Malta
* Constitutional Party
* Democratic Action Party
* Democratic Alternative
* Democratic Christian Party
* Democratic Nationalist Party (1921–1926)
* Democratic Nationalist Party (1959–1966)
* Democratic Party
* Gozo Party
* Jones Party
* Libertas Malta
* Maltese Democratic Party
* Maltese Political Union
* Malta Workers Party
* Moviment Patrijotti Maltin
* National Action
* Partito Popolare
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