Edward Zammit Lewis

Edward Zammit Lewis MP (born 21 June 1973 in Pietà) is a Maltese politician within the Labour Party, and a member of Parliament and Minister since 2013.

From April 2014 till June 2017, he served as Minister for Tourism, also responsible for Air Malta (which Zammit Lewis unsuccessfully attempted to sell to Alitalia[2]) and for the film industry in the 1st Muscat cabinet.

In the following two years, his law firm received several direct orders from governmental bodies including Identity Malta, the Lands Authority, and the National Development and Social Fund.

[5] During this tenure, Zammit Lewis oversaw the introduction of judicial reforms to comply with the recommendations of the Venice Commission to strengthen the rule of law.

[7] Zammit Lewis is considered very close to former Maltese prime minister Joseph Muscat, whom he knows since the times of St Aloysius' College.

He was part of Muscat's inner circle of aides, also accompanying the prime minister on family holidays, including a stay at a Hilton Hotel in France in 2017, which was paid for by Yorgen Fenech, later accused of masterminding the 2017 assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia.