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Paul Xuereb ( Rabat (Malta) , 21 July 1923 - 6 September 1994 ) was a political figure Maltese and writer . Between 16 February 1987 and 4 April 1989 served as agent President of Malta. He was also Speaker of Parliament.
Paul Xuereb was born on 21 July, 1923, by Adeodato Xuereb (author of drama and teacher) and Maria Dolores née Busuttil. Having attended the elementary school of Mdina , he took his secondary education at St Aloysius College, Birkirkara and College Flores, the Valletta . Between 1946 and 1949 he studied Paul Xuereb in the City Literary Institute and the Regent Street Polytechnic in London . He also studied journalism, political economy and political science.
During the Second World War he served with the Royal Malta Artillery and between 1944 and 1946 worked a clerk in the department of engineering Shipyard. During this period Xuereb distinguished himself and was awarded the Africa Star , the War Medal and Victory Medal . In 1946 emigrated to the United Kingdom and worked as a supervisor with the Department of Accounting Firm Peter Robinson and later as a clerk with the Department of Inland Revenue London. There he continued his studies and returned Malta in 1950. Among works had here was that of a teacher with the Department of Education.
In 1959 he left his job with the government and joined with the Labor Party where he was literary editor and assistant editor of the Labor journal The Voice of Malta . In 1964 he was appointed general director of the publishing house Labor Party Freedom Press. Xuereb contested the 1962 elections and was elected for the first time. He retains his parliamentary seat in the 1966 elections, in 1971, 1976 and 1981. He held several posts in the Labor government, including Minister of Industry and Trade in 1971, until then resigned from parliament in 17 April, 1983, was to ikkoopjat as MP Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici , who would reach the MLP leader. He was speaker of Parliament at the time prompted between July 1986 and February 1987.
He also was also chairman of Mid-Med Bank, the Medigrain, the Finance Investment Bank and the Malta Development Corporation.
Paul Xuereb agent appointed President of Malta on 16 February 1987 and continued until 4 April 1989. Following the violent incidents in Victoria 1987, Xuereb made an impassioned appeal on television to stop immediately violence.
Wife Paul Xuereb, Edwige, is not the first time publicly expressed desire to lounge in the palace housing the square of the former Presidents also fit its square.
Paul Xuereb was also an author of several books, most of detectives stories. The released books include:
The case of burned girl (1966)
The theft of the Nicolas Cotoner (1967)
Killing St Paul's Bay (1968)
Runduvù (1971)
When ... (1986), the Literary Prize for the year
Pitiross was Malta and other stories (1989)
He died 71 years, on 6 September 1994 and was given a state funeral. He was married to Edwige born in Muscat and had a daughter, Mary. In Victoria Garden is his monument, the work of the sculptor Anton Agius.
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The statue shows him holding a book in his right hand and his left hand raised in the air as though he is in the act of making a speech.
There is the following inscription on the statue's plinth.
PAWLU XUEREB
1923 - 1994
AGENT PRESIDENT TA' MALTA 1987 - 1989
KITTIEB U POLITIKU