Moviment Patrijotti Maltin leader Henry Battistino has resigned the post after what he termed as an electoral defeat in the European Parliament elections.

The MPM obtained 771 votes (0.3 %) of the valid votes cast.

It fielded two candidates, Simon Borg (577 votes) and Naged Megally (194 votes).

In a Facebook post, Battistino said that “the party I love so much” was defeated and he was shouldering responsibility by resigning with immediate effect.

He thanked all the people who voted for MPM and said that his resignation was final.