A new Christian political party, ABBA, has filed a judicial protest against the Electoral Commission, which is refusing to register it as a party that would allow it to contest the forthcoming general elections. The party is claiming that the commission is discriminating against over its refusal to register it according to law because its name cannot be shortened. It said the commission is insisting on an acronym when it could not have one because its name is already short. The judicial protest was filed against Chief Electoral Commissioner Joseph Camilleri by Ivan Grech Mintoff, the former leader of Alleanza Bidla, another political party, who is now leading the new party promising to lobby in favour of "Christian" values. In his application, Grech Mintoff explained that the new party filed for registration on August 27 for it to be formally registered and recognised as a political party. More than a month later, the commission informed it that the party could not be registered for two reasons: the party name had to be shortened into an acronym and its statute had a missing clause on the disposal of its assets if and when disbanded. Grech Mintoff insisted that according to law,...