Mark Anthony Sammut
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Mark Anthony Sammut (born 26 February 1986, Malta), is a Maltese politician and an electrical engineer. He served as the President of the Nationalist Party (Malta)'s Executive Committee. Sammut is also a Local Councillor in Gudja.
Personal life
Mark Anthony Sammut is the eldest of three brothers, and he was raised in the quaint village of Gudja.
From a young age, Sammut showed interest in various voluntary organisations and Non-Governmental Organisations. In fact, he was a member, treasurer and group leader of the Grupp Żgħażagħ Gudja. He is currently a member of the organisation ĊAMYouths.
Mark Anthony Sammut is also a Gold Award Holder of the International Award for Young People (also known as the Duke of Edinburgh Award).
He is married to Diane Sammut, née Mifsud, and they currently reside in Għaxaq.
Education and Work
Mark Anthony Sammut's Primary Education was received at St. Francis' school in Cospicua. He later attended St. Paul's Missionary College in Rabat to complete his Secondary Education.
Post-Secondary, Sammut attended G. F. Abela Junior College in Msida, and he later moved on to the University of Malta, where he read for a degree in Electrical Engineering.
During his studies, Sammut also benefited from an Erasmus exchange with the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. Further to that, he also read for an MSc. in Wireless Networks with the Queen Mary University of London.
He is currently employed as an IT Infrastructure Engineer with an online gaming company.
Political career
Mark Anthony Sammut entered politics for the first time during the Local Council elections in 2006, at the age of 20, where he got elected on the Nationalist Party (Malta) ticket with 205 first-preference votes.[1] He was re-elected in 2009 with 443 first-preference votes,[2] and again in 2013 with 544 first-preference votes.[3]
Sammut was a member of the PN Sectional Committee in Gudja from 2006 to 2013. He also served as Vice-Secretary of said committee between 2009 and 2013, when he then resigned from his post due to his nomination to contest the General Election.
In 2013, Sammut contested the General Election for the first time on the 4th and 5th districts. He earned 557 and 582 first-preference votes respectively.[4][5] He re-contested the General Election in 2017 on the 4th district, where he received 1,379 first-preference votes.[6]
In 2013, he was appointed as the Opposition's representative in the national Vote 16 Committee, until it was dissolved in September 2016.
From 2013 to 2016, Sammut was an elected member of the executive committee of Moviment Żgħażagħ Partit Nazzjonalista (MŻPN), and a representative of the organisation in the Nationalist Party (Malta)'s Executive Committee.
In 2015, he was elected in the Nationalist Party (Malta)'s Executive Committee as a representative of the Party's General Council. He was re-elected in November 2017, where he was also nominated and approved as the Executive Committee President.
References
- ^ "Electoral Commission of Malta". electoral.gov.mt. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
- ^ "Electoral Commission of Malta". electoral.gov.mt. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
- ^ "Electoral Commission of Malta". electoral.gov.mt. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
- ^ "Electoral Commission of Malta". electoral.gov.mt. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
- ^ "Electoral Commission of Malta". electoral.gov.mt. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
- ^ "Electoral Commission of Malta". electoral.gov.mt. Retrieved 2017-11-27.