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decide what to do with them. Women's suffrage was approved with the votes 145 to 137. However, this did not included women's right to be elected to political office, and the Women of Malta
Association therefore continued the campaign to include also this right. The debate continued with the same supporters and opponents, and the same arguments for and against, until this right was approved as well. After the approval of the reform in parliament, Josephine Burns de Bono resigned from her post as President of the Women of Malta Association with the statement that the purpose of the organization had now been achieved.
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a labor union, in order to give its representatives the right to speak in parliament. Their presence were nonetheless questioned, though without success.
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