Opposition Leader Alex Borg has revealed that the Nationalist Party is exploring legal avenues over what it claims was an abuse of power in the run-up to the general election. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Lovin Malta (@lovinmalta) Speaking on NET FM, Borg alleged that government jobs, promotions and Planning Authority permits that could
Nationalist Party leader Alex Borg has defended his decision to retain his parliamentary seat from Gozo, saying he wanted to honour the mandate given to him by Gozitan voters. Speaking during an interview on NET FM a week after the general election, Borg said he could not “abandon” the district where his political career began. “My political career
The Nationalist Party may have lost the general election, but it has been injected with a massive dose of energy and enthusiasm, Alex Borg said on Saturday. The PN leader said around 800 people have applied to serve as party volunteers in the past days, with the party also receiving over 1,000 suggestions following a request for feedback on the PN’s
Nationalist Party leader Alex Borg said Saturday that he chose to retain his parliamentary seat from the 13th District because he wanted to honour the mandate given to him by Gozitan voters, insisting that he could not "abandon" the district where his political career began. Speaking in an interview a week after the general election, which saw the
A sect of PN supporters – not party officials, to be clear – has made an argument that the people to blame for the party’s defeat are those almost 11,000 people who elected to vote for smaller parties. They are in part responsible, so the argument goes, for the PL returning to government because they were voting for a change which can never happen
Alex Borg will retain his Gozo parliamentary seat after the Nationalist Party found a way around its own statute. The PN confirmed the decision in a Facebook post on Friday evening, announcing that Borg would keep his Gozo seat following last weekend’s election. The decision means Borg will relinquish his seat on the 12th District instead, despite
The Nationalist Party has found a way to go around its statute to allow Alex Borg to retain his Gozo seat and give up his 12th district seat instead, Times of Malta can confirm. The PN confirmed Borg would keep his Gozo seat in a Facebook post on Friday evening, and sources close to the party told Times of Malta that it could only do that through a
1. Ian Borg – 23.4% of valid votes in District 7 Ian Borg secured 5,520 first-count votes in District 7, more than double the second-best performing candidate on the seventh district, Malcolm Paul Agius Galea, who got 2,378. Borg has always performed well in elections. In 2022, he received 5,025 first-count votes, and in 2017, he got 5,566 first-count
The conventional reading of Saturday’s election is not wrong. Labour has won a fourth consecutive mandate, with an enviable majority by pre-2013 standards. The Nationalist Party (PN) has lost again, even if less decisively than some polls predicted, while its new leader has emerged intact from his first national test, with an aura of energy and great
