As surveys confirm Labour’s downward trend in popularity, the Labour Party is trying to find any way possible to regain back its dominant trend, and foreign policy is now also being used to this end. Labour’s downturn in popularity has also compelled the Prime Minister to hold back from passing his planning reform described by NGOs as the most corrupt planning reform and in doing so, he is also avoiding an escalation of protests.
One of the questions in the surveys being issued by the Labour Party to gather data for its current political strategy asks undecided voters what the government can do to win their trust. This question was posed explicitly, betraying the interests and the client of the entity conducting the survey.
Labour is fishing for solutions and it reeks of desperation, but also of its amoral opportunism. It is also gripped with confusion and uncertainty and its only strength is the Opposition’s weakness. This is also putting our country at even greater risk as the government turns everything into a dispensable tool for election purposes.
Labour can’t find its footing because it won’t be able to present itself as a serious political force other than by presenting itself as the only viable solution due to the competence of its Minister of Finance and a couple of other ministers. The Prime Minister is devoid of any vision and meaning and his politics is mostly concerned with keeping Joseph Muscat and his associates out of prison. Meanwhile, the political rot will only accumulate.
Labour can’t even implement any serious project any more as the thinking regressed substantially even on matters of management. The government can’t even start the metro project and doesn’t even want to consider build a bridge between Malta and Gozo. Labour has become the new conservative and the new antique status quo.
One of the last ways that Labour can still try to gain some votes is by giving out some free stuff to constituents even if it risks falling to levels of absolute banality and ridicule. At this stage, governance is deteriorating into a cacophony of press conferences, stupidity and blatant criminal corruption.
Labour knows that the people are fed up but the Opposition still needs to take absolute control over the voting trend: it has so far failed to convince many.
The Nationalist Opposition needs to rekindle further enthusiasm in these circumstances to make more headway: the performance of the Opposition Leader during Jon Mallia’s Il-Kaลผin doesn’t seem to have helped him. The political situation literally depends on the Nationalist Opposition sorting out itself to eventually present itself as a formidable alternative government to Labour. Once the Opposition sorts itself out, Labour’s electoral loss will be swift and decisive.
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