What next?

Monday, October 17, 2022 - 09:25

When the Chief Minister Fabian Picardo called a general election in September 2019, nobody could have possibly foreseen the huge and complex challenges that lay in wait. The people of Gibraltar rewarded the GSLP-Liberal government with another landslide victory a month later in October, 27percentage points clear of their nearest rivals, yet little did anybody know the poisoned chalice that the winning team had just been handed. 


GRACE 1
The seizure of the Grace 1 oil tanker on 4 July 2019 was, with hindsight, already a harbinger of things to come. It was only a few months before the general election itself and it catapulted Gibraltar into the top story of global news headlines. The Iranian vessel was accused of trying to take a cargo of oil to Syria in violation of European Union sancions.

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