Alicia Bugeja Said is contesting the upcoming election on the 3rd and 12th Districts under the Partit Laburista ticket. We sat down with her for a quick chat to ask a few questions about her campaign, priorities, and what she hopes to bring to the table and here’s how she answered. 1. Why should people vote for you? I believe every candidate deserves
PN leader Alex Borg says he is in favour of Maltese citizens living abroad being allowed to vote through embassies instead of having to travel back to Malta for elections. Speaking to journalists on Tuesday, as reported by The Malta Independent , Borg said the issue should be discussed at the start of the next legislature following this month’s general
Maltese election campaigns have always involved a degree of generosity. This one is something else. The proposals are arriving at a rate that is no longer a feature of the campaign — they are the campaign. Someone walks up to a podium, a graphic appears behind them with a number that has a lot of zeros, and what is essentially a budget line item gets
For one week every year, Malta behaves less like a country watching a music contest and more like a nation preparing for a final. Living rooms turn into fan zones, social media becomes a live commentary feed and qualification discussions carry the same emotional tension as knockout football. Eurovision may not involve goals or stadiums, but in Malta,
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