There was one politician that has mostly captured the limelight in Malta in 2025 and this was Alex Borg. This is also reflected in the frequency and volume of articles about him on this website. We have been following Alex Borg for some time and we were the first to point out that Alex Borg and Adrian Delia planned to oust PN leader Bernard Grech to replace him with one of them. Initially, they both denied this story but they proved us right.
We were also the first to point out how Alex Borg lied in parliament about the government’s concession of Fort Chambray – he was censored by the Standards Commissioner for this. Alex Borg reacted to our story by refusing to answer to any of our questions and did his best to avoid us as he hatched his plans to take over the Nationalist Party. He also earned a reputation of being a Labour Party Trojan Horse.
Eventually, he was successful in his aim and he even exceeded his expectations. Starting out, Alex Borg gained a reputation of being a pip-squeak for Malta’s large developers and property speculators – he is still being supported by this lobby. However, he proved he can stray away from their lobbying demands by proposing to introduce environmental and ecological safeguards in the Constitution. He also brought a new wave of enthusiasm among the Nationalist Party supports and is even making the Nationalist Party more popular.
Looking back, Alex Borg has exceeded expectations and he has become the focus point of Malta’s political scene. It is to be seen whether he will keep up his momentum. Alex Borg needs to exert herculean efforts to flip the Labour Party (no pun intended), but he still seems as oblivious as Labour when it comes to many serious and structural problems such as energy and subsidies. In addition, making Adrian Delia spokesperson for government finances isn’t panning out well when the Minister is an actually competent and astute nerd, while appointing Joe Giglio spokesperson for Justice is like appointing Russia or Israel as the Head of the United Nations Human Rights Committee.
So far, Alex Borg has shown that he can be his own man, but his level of competence and political vision still leaves much to be desired. So far he proved himself right with his argument that the Nationalist Party needed new blood. Indeed, the Nationalist Party is doing better off with him and for his own party, he is being relatively successful in his mission. On the other hand, Alex Borg still needs to project some sort of level of statesmanship to prove that he is more serious than Labour. Copying Labour’s energy policy and appointing the wrong people in their positions doesn’t show enough foresight. In addition, Alex Borg still has to ward off any suspicions that he is leading an alternative populist movement to Labour. When confronted about this during his leadership campaign, Alex Borg said that he no longer considers President Trump as his favourite politician and instead finds Premier Meloni more admirable.
Alex Borg wants us to have great expectations about him. This is a big deal for many disenfranchised voters who were let down after believing that Joseph Muscat would bring a modernising revolution. He is indeed in a position to build a strong political movement that can flip the Labour Party but winning against Labour should come with a national plan that is clear in its aims. Alex Borg still needs to provide more clarity and sit for harder interviews as opposed to having friendly chats with Ricky Caruana and his likes.
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