Tag: Adrian Delia
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Vladimir Putin’s table at the PN’s Headquarters
It only occurred to me recently that the Nationalist Party is using a Vladimir Putin-styled roundtable for its parliamentary group discussions in contrast to the Labour Party which uses a squarish and Last Supper-like tabling style at its Party Headquarters on the third floor. I think it looks ridiculous. How are they able to hold…
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Alex Borg should meet the Prime Minister in his first meeting in Parliament or in Castille not at the Labour Party Headquarters
The invitation to Alex Borg by the Prime Minister is reminiscent of the meeting Joseph Muscat held with Adrian Delia at the Labour Party Headquarters when Adrian Delia was first elected leader of the PN. The meeting was irregular according to protocol since the the Alex Borg is first and foremost the Leader of the…
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New PN Leader Alex Borg says his policy priorities are housing and pensions: mentions the environment and overdevelopment
In his first interview after being elected leader of the Nationalist Party, Alex Borg said that incentives for first-time buyers to purchase their first home will be among his top policy priorities. Another priority will be pensions, and he said he would address the pre-1962 pensions issue, under which some pensioners receive pensions at a…
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Updated at 16:30: 78% turnout in PN leadership election, 94% in Gozo
Updated 1630CET Turnout now around 78%. Turnout in Gozo was estimated at 94% according to unofficial figures. By 1 p.m., 66% of eligible members had cast their vote in today’s election for the Leader of the Nationalist Party. This approximate percentage also includes those who voted during the first two days of early voting. Among…
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Alex Borg is being backed by very sophisticated political veterans
During yesterday’s political debate between the contenders for the Nationalist Party’s leadership, Alex Borg gave a very well scripted delivery which was clearly written for him by someone who is highly experienced in Maltese politics and has been writing scripts and political discourses for most of his life. The author is definitely a man and…
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Exclusive: Roberta Metsola backs Adrian Delia as PN members protest her overwhelming shadow
The Maltese Herald has confirmed that the President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola is backing Adrian Delia in the Nationalist Party’s leadership race, however her support for the leadership candidate is backfiring with members complaining that President Metsola’s shadow is still looming large over the Party. Members and activists of the Nationalist Party were…
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Updated: Exclusive: Around 8000 tesserati cast their vote over two days
Updated with new figures. A total of around 5000 tesserati cast their vote in today’s early voting session across Malta and Gozo in the PN leadership election. This means that around 8000 cast their vote over two days or around 40% of total eligible voters who number 20,377. Earlier…. Early voting is once again taking…
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Exclusive: Over 2,800 members cast their vote in PN leadership election
Over 2,800 Nationalist Party members voted today in the party’s leadership election: the first of two days of early voting in the contest between Adrian Delia and Alex Borg. PN sources informed The Maltese Herald that the total amount of 20,377 tesserati are eligible to vote in this leadership election, meaning that around 15% of…
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A renewed enthusiasm for victory: the Nationalist Party
Yesterday, during the Nationalist Party’s leadership debate between Alex Borg and Adrian Delia, what was mostly striking from the debate is that the leadership contenders are bringing in the Nationalist Party a renewed sense of enthusiasm to win the elections. This was much desperately needed in the Nationalist Party after consecutive election losses which left…
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A post-2019 PN Leader to dismantle the Opposition: Alex Borg
Like any other politician or journalist, I have been following Alex Borg and Adrian Delia over the past few days to understand what they plan to do if elected leader of the Nationalist Party. Some polls state that Alex Borg is the likely candidate to win the leadership bid. This prospect should put him under…
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I create problems and then I solve them – Supreme Leader Robert Abela
We are gently reminding our readers that before the Prime Minister stealthily ushered a massive construction and planning reform in parliament that aims to disregard all of Malta’s environmental regulations instituted in the past thirty years, previously, the Prime Minister used to harper about committing injustice if the local plans changed. Now, it’s basically “to…
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What are the PN leadership candidates saying about Malta’s housing crisis?
Malta’s major social and economic issue is the housing crisis which is pricing out young people from the property market as property prices in Malta keep soaring. Both of the PN leadership candidates, Adrian Delia and Alex Borg have made comments on the housing crisis. Adrian Delia is proposing a database of empty properties powered…
