Mass meeting

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A mass meeting is a type of deliberative assembly in which all present, meeting specified criteria, are considered voting members.

Organizations may have specific names for their mass meetings; however, if they meet the characteristics described above, the type of meeting is a mass meeting. For example, both Annual General Meetings and Annual Membership Meetings may be mass meetings.

Under Robert's Rules of Order, the term "mass meeting" is not used in connection with meetings of an existing organization, but rather refers to meetings "of an unorganized group." RONR, 10th ed., p. 526. Such a meeting is called to take action on a particular problem or toward a particular purpose as determined by the sponsors of the meeting. One of the purposes may be the eventual creation of a new organization.

Political mass meetings, originally known as monster meetings are part of the Maltese political history. The first meeting probably held was in 1879 in Floriana. The first meetings were intended to resist colonial attempts over religious aspects and were known as patria et religio meetings. Mass meetings became popular in the Maltese Islands in the 1970s and 1980s. A party feeling is nowadays included in these meetings. Several songs, generally Euro disco, are attributed to campaigns and sung at mass meetings such as "We Take the Chance" and "Win the Race" (Modern Talking), "The Final Countdown", Macarena and political chants such as "Ngħidu Iva" (Say Yes), and "Partnership l-Aħjar Għażla" (Partnership the Best Choice).^[1]