The last Sunday of the campaign, as was to be expected, was dominated by the two mass meetings held in Floriana and Sliema.

There will be another occasion when the masses will be called to show their support, on Thursday, the last day of the campaign, when the Labour Party and the Nationalist Party will rally their troops for one last time before we vote on Saturday.

Both crowds were huge yesterday. A sea of red in Floriana, a sea of blue in Sliema.

But, as we have had occasion to say so many times, it is not the people who attend mass meetings who will decide the election.

It is those who stay at home, carry no flag, and decide only based on their assessments of what the two parties have to offer. Many have already made up their mind, others are still thinking about it. The surveys published in the newspapers show that there is a sizeable chunk of people who would not say who they will vote for.

It is probably because they are afraid of some kind of repercussion if they admit their allegiance to any of the parties.

Bothe parties and leaders need to convince this group of people in these last few days. They know that they will make a difference.

Muscat is focusing on the achievements made by the Labour government in the last four years, including an improving economy (built on the foundations started by the previous Nationalist administration) and civil rights (something that is wholly Labour’s doing).

Busuttil is concentrating on Labour’s poor track record with regard to promises it failed to fulfil, such as meritocracy and accountability. Most of all, he is saying that a vote for Labour will open the door to more corruption. Having a Prime Minister and his right hand man the protagonists of three magisterial investigations means there is something extraordinarily wrong with this administration.

Both parties chose foreign guests to address their crowd. Labour selected former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, who failed to complete his term as prime minister and whose father is embroiled in a massive investigation in Italy. The PN selected Manfred Weber, the head of the European Parliament EPP group.

In his morning address in Mellieha, Busuttil spoke mostly about the revelations made in The Malta Independent on Sunday, suspicions of kickbacks over Enemalta's privatization have been flagged by the Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit in a damning report. No Portfolio minister Konrad Mizzi issued a denial, very much in the same way that Keith Schembri attacked another independent media, The Sunday Times, for writing an editorial urging people to vote PN.