Former PN MP Mario Felice passes away

NATO award-winning, former Nationalist MP Mario Felice has passed away, aged 80, in Minnesota, where he lived. He was one of the more eloquent members of the Borg Olivier administration. He was once touted as a replacement for Borg Olivier.

2 January 2011, 12:00am

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Felice served as shadow minister between 1971 and 1981 and became chairman of the Malta International Business Authority in 1989, which later become the Malta Financial Services Centre.

Felica was also president of the Malta branch of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, visiting the White House for meetings with senior US officials in 1969.

In that capacity, he visited the White House for meetings with senior US officials in 1969. Felice was handed an award by NATO in 1974 for promoting understanding of the alliance.

Married to Evelyn Cassar Reynau, Felice leaves behind a son and two daughters.

In a recent article in MaltaToday Mario Felice is portrayed in the US embassy telegrams 'as a friendly source who meets up with the US ambassador and officials, communicates goings-on in politics and internal PN news. Felice (born 1930) was a frontbench member of the PN up until 1981 as a shadow finance minister, but was also close to Labour prime minister Dom Mintoff' – here it emerges he met with him regularly.

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Condolences to the Felice family. May he rest in peace.