Malta's Labour wins for the fourth time

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Published 17.30

 

Malta's Prime Minister Robert Abela. Archive photo. Photo: Petros Karadjias /AP/TT

Malta's social democratic Labour has won the announced parliamentary elections. The victory is the party's fourth in a row.

Prime Minister Robert Abela called the elections with reference to the geopolitical situation.

- Today we have written history, together, said Abela when the 48-year-old party leader proclaimed the election victory from the balcony of the party's headquarters.

Abela and the Labour Party's main opponent was Alex Borg from the Nationalist Party (PN), a 30-year-old lawyer who had previously won the "Mr World Malta" beauty contest. Borg's election manifesto was based partly on the demand for "change".

But voters elected Abela, who has governed the country since 2020. The representative was forced to leave office after a political scandal that followed the murder of investigative reporter Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2017.