Former Birkirkara mayor Yana Borg Debono Grech is held aloft amidst celebrations at the counting hall last month. File photo: Matthew Mirabelli
With the dust settling on this year’s local council elections, Malta now has half as many women mayors as it did in 2019, despite a slight uptick in the number of women in local councils.Only seven of Malta’s 68 local councils are now led by a female mayor. This includes the town of Birkirkara, where...