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politician who held a number of ministerial offices between 1971 and 1987. Sant was a controversial figure who had an aggressive leadership approach. In the 1980s he was involved in incidents of political violence, and he has been held responsible for violating the
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violations. During his tenure as minister, Sant was hostile and aggressive to some of his employees, and in 2010 the courts found that he had breached the human rights of Renè Buttigieg who had worked as a government architect when Sant was works minister.
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Lorry Sant had ambitions to succeed Dom
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In 1989, Lorry Sant was charged with corruption in court, but the case was abandoned after magistrate Carol
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Lorry Sant and his canvassers were responsible for various forms of political violence in the 1980s. On one occasion he reportedly broke the glasses of then-Nationalist MP
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Lorry Sant had a very rough leadership approach which resulted in a number of controversies including
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Projects which Sant was involved in include the conversion of the former Sacra
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on 26 December 1937. He studied at the
Technical Institute and then worked at the
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10,000. Sant also created another
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A bronze statue of Lorry Sant was inaugurated in his hometown
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