Why we have withdrawn from Open Government Partnership Malta

The Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation has formally withdrawn from Open Government Partnership Malta following two years of unsuccessful attempts to collaborate with the Ministry of Justice.

We joined OGP Malta in 2023 hoping that the Ministry of Justice will commit to implementing the outstanding rule of law recommendations made by various entities. These include, but are not limited to, the recommendations made by the Public Inquiry into Daphne Caruana Galizia’s assassination, the Venice Commission, the European Commission Rule of Law Reports, the OECD recommendations to the Commissioner for Standards in Public Life, and relevant resolutions of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the European Parliament.

In the interests of justice and rule of law in Malta, we remain open to collaboration on the effective implementation of the recommendations, particularly the recommendations of the Public Inquiry into Daphne Caruana Galizia’s assassination.

We remain grateful for Open Government Partnership’s (OGP) trust in us in assisting its engagement with Government to ensure Malta was able to retain its OGP membership in 2023 despite its preceding years of inaction and passive disengagement from the project.