{"id":82667,"date":"2026-02-05T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/watch-abela-pushes-for-anti-deadlock-mechanism-after-chief-justice-vote-failed\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T17:21:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:21:00","slug":"watch-abela-pushes-for-anti-deadlock-mechanism-after-chief-justice-vote-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/watch-abela-pushes-for-anti-deadlock-mechanism-after-chief-justice-vote-failed\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Abela pushes for anti-deadlock mechanism after chief-justice vote failed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch: Abela pushes for anti-deadlock mechanism after chief-justice vote failed<br \/>\nPrime Minister Robert Abela has called for the introduction of an anti-deadlock mechanism to break parliamentary impasses in key state appointments.The prime minister made this call after government efforts to appoint Madam Justice Consuelo Scerri Herrera as the new Chief Justice collapsed over the failure to secure a two-thirds majority in parliament.The law to appoint&#8230;<br \/>\nRSS Feed Source: Times of Malta <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/article\/watch-abela-pushes-antideadlock-mechanism-chiefjustice-vote-failed.1123647\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch: Abela pushes for anti-deadlock mechanism after chief-justice vote failed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch: Abela pushes for anti-deadlock mechanism after chief-justice vote failed Prime Minister Robert Abela has called for the introduction of an anti-deadlock mechanism to break parliamentary impasses in key state appointments.The prime minister made this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2139],"tags":[1850],"class_list":["post-82667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malta-news","tag-abatement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}