Labour Party MP Randolph Debattista has officially submitted his resignation as a Member of Parliament today, in the opening plenary session of 2025.

He has resigned to pursue a new representative role as Malta's ambassador to Geneva.

Debattista filed in his resignation by submitting a letter to Parliament Speaker Anġlu Farrugia.

In his letter, the exiting backbencher penned that he has always done his utmost to represent the voiceless and society's most vulnerable.

"I look forward to serving the country through multilateralism, for the future challenges that await us," Debattista wrote.

Preceding today's official resignation, Debattista had announced that this news was coming last summer, on 10 August 2024.

During the same summer week he had made this announcement, the now former MP had, at the time, resigned from his position as Labour Party CEO. This was one of several key resignations that the Labour government and party had faced within a span of a few weeks within this period.

Debattista was co-opted as a Member of Parliament in March 2022 after the results of the general election were made public, even though he hadn't actually contested the election ticket.

Debattista's departure as a PL MP now requires the Labour Party to co-opt a replacement for his vacant seat.