Prime Minister Joseph Muscat is nominating Dr Toni Abela as a member of the European Court of Auditors, an OPM statement said this afternoon.
Dr Abela is Malta's third nominee since Malta joined the European Union in 2004. He is expected to succeed Dr Louis Galea, who served as a member of the European Court of Auditors for the last five years, after Prof Josef Bonnici who served as the first Maltese member in the same institution.
Dr Abela read law at the University of Malta and has been practising at the bar for 33 years. He has mainly dealt with Constitutional and Administrative issues. In 1989, Dr Abela co-founded a new political party, Alternattiva Demokratika. In 1996 he was appointed to the Employment Commission, which is a Constitutional body, where he served as one of the Commissioners for three years.
In 2008 he was elected to the post of Deputy Leader of Labour Party and among other duties he monitored the management of Labour councillors and local councils with a Labour Party majority.
Dr Abela is married to Marisa and they have three children, Estelle, Fleur and Aaron.
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