Peter Agius submits bid to run as PN MEP candidate in 2024

Nationalist Party spokesperson Peter Agius intends to run for an MEP seat in the 2024 European Parliament elections.
Agius, a senior EU official who previously led the European Parliament office in Malta and served as speechwriter to EP president Antonio Tajani, said on Saturday that he had written to the PN seeking to be approved as one of its candidates for the 2024 race.
“Almost 20 years passed since Malta’s decision to join the EU. Since then, the EU has changed a lot, and not always with due consideration to Maltese needs. Tax harmonisation and ‘one size fits all’ policies are but a few of the daily challenges which require a stronger representation of Maltese interests in Brussels,” he said.

He said Malta needed MEPs who could represent it with “conviction and competence” and urged anyone keen on lending a hand to get in touch.
Agius was also a PN candidate during the 2019 MEP elections. He failed to get elected in that campaign as the PN lost its third MEP seat to Labour, but he then remained active in domestic politics, speaking at several party events, serving as its representative within the European People’s Party and then being appointed its official spokesperson...