Clyde Puli
{{Short description|Maltese politician (born 1969)}}
{{More footnotes needed|date=September 2012}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|image =
|imagesize = 150px |
| name = Clyde Puli
|honorific-prefix = The Honourable
|honorific-suffix = MP
| order = Parliamentary Secretary of Youth and Sport
| primeminister = Lawrence Gonzi
| term_start = 12 March 2008
| term_end = 10 March 2013
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1969|09|13|df=y}}
| death_date =
| death_place =
| party = Nationalist Party
| spouse = Maryanne; 2 children
}}
Clyde Puli (born 13 September 1969) was a Maltese Member of Parliament with the Nationalist Party,http://www.parliament.gov.mt/membersofparliament?l=1{{dead link|date=August 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} holding the position of Spokesperson for Family and Social Solidarity in the Opposition Shadow Cabinet.{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2013-08-03/news/changes-in-composition-of-shadow-cabinet-2241495040|title = Changes in composition of Shadow Cabinet - the Malta Independent}} He is a former Maltese Parliamentary Secretary of Youth and Sport.{{Cite web| title=The Malta Government Gazette | url=http://www.doi.gov.mt/EN/gazetteonline/2008/03/gazts/GG%2013.3.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606140610/http://www.doi.gov.mt/EN/gazetteonline/2008/03/gazts/GG%2013.3.pdf | archive-date=2011-06-06}}
Education
Puli studied sociology and communications and, later, political sociology at the University of Malta. He is a member of the Malta Institute of Management, the UK Chartered Institute of Public Relations and the European Sociological Association.
Political life
Puli was first elected to public office in 1994 as Local Councillor in Qormi.{{Cite web| url=http://www.maltadata.com/tr-namelist.htm | title=Malta: Local Council Members, 1993 - 2008 | accessdate=2009-10-24 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081010233156/http://www.maltadata.com/tr-namelist.htm | archivedate=2008-10-10}} He served a term as Mayor (1998–2001){{Cite web| url=http://www.maltadata.com/mayors.htm | title=Mayors, 1994 - 2008 | accessdate=2009-10-24 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090619234431/http://www.maltadata.com/mayors.htm | archivedate=2009-06-19}} and was re-elected councillor in 2001 until 2003 when he resigned to take up his Parliamentary seat.
In 1997 he was elected President of the Nationalist Party’s College of Councillors through which he was appointed ex ufficio member of the Party's Administrative, Executive and General Councils.
In 2003 he was elected for the first time to Parliament and in the subsequent elections in 2008
{{Cite web| title=The Malta Government Gazette | url=http://www.doi.gov.mt/EN/gazetteonline/2008/03/gazts/GG%2012.3.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606133844/http://www.doi.gov.mt/EN/gazetteonline/2008/03/gazts/GG%2012.3.pdf | archive-date=2011-06-06}} and 2013. He served as Parliamentary Secretary for Youth and Sport in the Ministry of Education and Culture (2008-2013), Chairman of the Standing Committee on Social Affairs (2004-2008), member of the Standing Committee on Foreign and European Affairs (2003-2004) and member of the National Council for Children (2005-2008).
References
{{Gonzi Cabinet 2008-2013}}
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Category:Members of the House of Representatives of Malta
Category:Nationalist Party (Malta) politicians
Category:University of Malta alumni
Category:20th-century Maltese politicians
Category:21st-century Maltese politicians
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