Edwin Vassallo (born 24 June 1961) is a Maltese politician and businessman formerly from the Nationalist Party who served as a member of the Parliament of Malta from 1996 to 2022.
The Malta Today wrote in 2022 that his "shopkeeper mentality gave him a lack of sophistication that ironically brought him the allure of a man of the people, a marked distinction in a party of lawyers.
He was also the only MP to oppose the introduction of same-sex marriage in Malta in 2017,[3] and also voted against a domestic violence bill in 2018 which integrated the Istanbul Convention into Maltese law.
[4] Edwin Vassallo claimed in a video in 2023 to have left the Nationalist Party citing his values and in turn founded a think-tank called the Solidarity Movement (Maltese: Moviment Solidarjetà), which he leads as Coordinator.
[5] Vassallo, through MS, has collaborated with the People's Party on a press-conference regarding road projects and works in his native Mosta which he claims were full of irresponsibly planned and resulted in injuries due to lack of safety procedures.