Nationalist Party (Malta)
The Nationalist Party (PN, Maltese: Partit Nazzjonalista) is a Christian-democratic and conservative political party in Malta. It is one of two major contemporary political parties in Malta, along with the opposition Labour Party. It was founded by Fortunato Mizzi in 1880 as the Anti-Reform Party, opposing taxation decreed by the British colonial authorities and measures to Anglicise the educational and the judicial systems. The presence of Italian refugees from the Risorgimento gave the party a liberal constitutionalist character in the Party's early days and a pro-Italian stance which lasted until the Second World War.
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