According to Adrian Delia, one of Malta’s main issues is the overpopulation and this needs to be addressed by kicking all foreigners out. He hasn’t yet said that explicitly but he has made this implications several times and is arguing that Malta does not have the required infrastructure to accommodate all foreigners.
Alex Borg has previously made similar comments. They may also link this issue with the ongoing housing crisis in which young people are becoming increasingly priced out of the property market.
The very serious issue concern about the Nationalist Party is that populist discourse currently dominates PN’s political discourse, and thus the PN risks falling into racist overtones.
If the PN addresses “overpopulation” as it calls it, as it considers the issue from purely a demographic point of view, that PN are also neglecting the very important economic aspect on the matter.
There is widespread consensus within the political board that Malta has to transition from an economy based on low-productive jobs, to higher quality jobs – this transition shouldn’t be addressed by kicking the foreigners out, but rather by an economic restructuring and foreign direct investment.
If the Nationalist Party was actually strategic about its nationalism rather than populist and short-sighted, PN would support a proposal to oblige foreigners obtaining working visas in Malta to have a Maltese language certification – this would increase the pool of Maltese language speakers, something that a nationalist would surely, and by default, welcome. Kicking out all the foreigners so that we play monopoly by ourselves may not even be in the best nationalist interests of society.
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