Labour has announced it has co-opted Andy Ellul into Parliament to take up the seat vacated by former MP Silvio Grixti.

In a statement, the PL said that Ellul’s nomination had been approved by the party’s parliamentary and executive groups.

A former policeman and a founding partner of LEX Group, Ellul is currently also the chairperson of a governmental technical committee on parental alienation, overseeing a national strategy focusing on this family issue

He becomes the fifth co-option of Prime Minister Robert Abela’s administration, after Clyde Caruana, Oliver Scicluna, Miriam Dalli, and Jonathan Attard.

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