The polls on MaltaToday could not have been bleaker: PN leader Adrian Delia has been harmed by party infighting and separation. Labour leader Joseph Muscat trumps Adrian Delia across all regions, with significant distance separating them in Gozo, the Southern Harbour region and the South East.
Yet you would not have guessed this if you attended the PN rally held at AZAD in Valletta. Characteristically, the PN leader let fly with a rousing speech touching on most of the PN pet subjects even to the extent of mentioning by name assassinated journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia with whom he had crossed swords in the past.
Once again, Dr Delia spoke about abortion at the end of his speech, linking this to the celebration of the Day for Life celebrated just a few metres away in the centre of the city. While PL speaks of the foetus as 'just some seven cells', PN on the contrary honours life right from the beginning inside the mother's womb.

PL is using subtle ways to lead to the decriminalisation of abortion in Malta such as by changing definitions in the law whereas PN prefers to defend life at its weakest - in children and inside wombs. This government has created a soul-less society.
At the beginning of his speech, Dr Delia joined previous speakers in honouring Valletta and PN's links with the capital city. New Valletta mayor Christian Micallef had already boasted Valletta will retain its PN majority in the coming local council elections. It was another PN majority and a former PN government which led to Valletta being nominated as the Capital City of Culture, but as people from the arts sector he met over the past days have complained, the Vi8 event did not contribute much to the arts and culture sector but spent more on drinks and parties. No investment has been made in the cultural sphere.
He then focused on the recent Transparency International index which put Malta, which used to be at the top, in the 51st place, along with countries like Ruanda, Namibia etc. Malta is the country which fell most. Unconsciously perhaps, taking a leaf from Franco Debono's statement, he added this is the most corrupt government ever.
Malta was also mentioned in the Panama Papers and again as regards the Pilatus Bank. Dr Delia noted how Joseph Muscat has now taken to attack the banks for not being open to customers and giving them the funds they require. He wants them to relax controls whereas saner counsels are telling them to remain serious and strict as they have always been. Malta's reputation has been damaged by lax controls and by the citizenship for sale process. A PN government will never sell Malta's identity.
A PN government will bring back hope in the sector and this will lead to more investment coming in.
The Transparency \international report also spoke about the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia. Till today, we do not know who ordered her assassination and a PN motion to discuss the killing and its background was not allowed by the government. What is the government hiding or afraid of? When a journalist is killed, the freedom of a country is decreased.
In recent days too, the National Audit Office issued its report on the flood of visas given to Algerian citizens to come to Malta. One in four of those granted visas simply disappeared. The scandal came to light in August 2014 when the officer in charge was Joseph Muscat's cousin but was investigated only in December 2015 when the cousin had moved away.
With a parliamentary committee slated to discuss the Corinthia land deal on Monday, Dr Delia spoke extensively on the issue to make it clear the Opposition will vote against the deal. Normal people living in rent accommodation are treated one way and have to leave their accommodation but not so the rich. 
The deal was initialled three years ago but it was only on Christmas Eve that the government, hoping to catch the Opposition unaware, tried to pass this deal. But the Opposition was alert and blocked the move and moved a counter-motion on 27 December.
The land in question is worth between €700 million and €800 million and a deposit on it would normally be some 10%. But in this case the deposit that is being asked is of just €1 million.
It is not true that the Opposition and Mario de Marco agreed on the Corinthia plan. What they had agreed to was with the plan to turn the site to real estate and in favour of a six-star development but not with being given this land so cheap.
Dr Delia's next target was transport. Each day, 73 vehicles join the traffic on our roads. The government has committed to spend €700 million over seven years but this turns out to mean widening of narrow roads and their resurfacing, far from the changes that are needed. After the seven years, we will realise how we still remain where we were.
As regards education, there is dire need, as MUT said, of new teachers and a new strategy. PN has always been in favour of sustainable education. And this government is bringing agriculture to its death.