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The Malta Workers Party (MWP) was a political party in Malta in the 1950s.
The Labour Party under the leadership of Paul Boffa had won 24 out of 40 seats in the Maltese general election, 1947. The party split in 1949 following disputes between Boffa and his deputy Dom Mintoff. As a result, Boffa founded the Malta Workers Party while Mintoff founded the Malta Labour Party.
In the Maltese general election, 1950, the parties won 11 seats each while the Nationalist Party won 12. In 1951 the MWP seats fell to 7 and in 1953 to 3, in both cases with the MWP supporting a Nationalist led government.
Boffa resigned as leader in 1955 for health reasons and the MWP did not contest the general election that year.
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