Partit Demokratiku is considering teaming up with other political parties to form "one entity", a situation which would strengthen their limited resources ahead of the next general election, outgoing PD leader Godfrey Farrugia said.

Speaking to The Malta Independent, Farrugia said that the party executive, including himself, will resign at the end of the counting process for the local council elections, expected on Friday.

A steering committee will be set up to analyse the result and prepare the way forward. “I will stay on as caretaker leader until the steering committee decides what to do,” he said. “Once this process is over, however, I have no intention of contesting for the leadership again”.

The Partit Demokratiku was born just over two years ago and it has already faced two national elections, the 2017 general election and the 2019 EP and local council elections. PD started with Marlene Farrugia as leader before she was replaced by Anthony Buttigieg, who also resigned when he said he will contest the EP election and was replaced by Godfrey Farrugia.

As a party, “we are a coalition of liberals and democrats”, Godfrey Farrugia said today, and this opens the way to the inclusion of parties or individuals with similar ideologies.

“We would like to come together with others in the best interests of Malta,” he said.

Asked whether this could mean the possibility of a coalition with the Nationalist Party as happened before the 2017 election, Farrugia said that today’s circumstances are different.

“We tried to come together with Alternattiva Demokratika before the EP election, but it was too late to come to a conclusion,” he said.

A coalition could be one option but there is also the possibility of the formation of "one entity", Farrugia said, indicating the chance of two or more parties merging together.