Robert Arrigo MQR (4 December 1954 – 18 October 2022)[1] was a Maltese tourism operator and politician who served a member of the House of Representatives of Malta for the Nationalist Party from 2003 until his death in 2022.
Arrigo's main business interests were within the travel and tourism industry, in fact he was the director of Robert Arrigo & Sons Limited, which is a Quality Assured Destination Management Company (DMC) and an incoming tour operator in Malta.
Later on in 2003, Arrigo was elected to the 10th Maltese Parliament, in the interests of the Nationalist Party on the first attempt from the Malta 10th electoral district.
[2] On 13 December 2022, he was posthumously awarded the Midalja għall-Qadi tar-Repubblika by then-President George Vella.
He also had several controversies, the most renowned being a bitter relationship with Dr. Joe Mifsud, the chairman of the Malta Football Association, and chairmen of some other clubs.