The following are the top stories in the Maltese press.

Times of Malta like the other newspapers, leads with the controversy over the nomination of new Magistrates. It quotes the Dean of the Faculty of Law saying the magistrates' nomination was a double gaffe.

In-Nazzjon says the Opposition expects the prime minister to drop the nominations.

l-orizzont said one magistrate's appointment will go ahead while the other nomination will be considered by the Council for the Administration of Justice.

The Malta Independent claims the Speaker's daughter will be sworn in as magistrate after February 23 when she achieves the seven-years practice threshold.

In other stories,

Times of Malta reports how a man was arrested at Malta Freeport for smuggling weapons from Libya.

l-orizzont says Dolores Cristina's son has lost a libel case against l-orizzont over an EU decision to withhold funds for education programmes.

The Malta Independent says that a lawyer representing Monti hawkers suspects a plan by the government to get rid of half the hawkers.

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