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Chocolate teapot time again

Friday, 8 March 2013, 08:29 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

We have published leading articles in the same vein three times now. And we are, of course, referring to the law that governs the period of reflection prior to polling day.   We published...

PN: Sound policies promoting growth, investment and jobs

Thursday, 7 March 2013, 13:23 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Our leader page is today dedicated to the two choices that the electorate have before them for polling day come 9 March.   As a news medium, we will be bound not to mention politics in the...

Labour: A clean break from past politics

Thursday, 7 March 2013, 08:24 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Once the good, the bad and the ugly that has emerged from this protracted election campaign are weighed up, what the Labour Party has really placed on the electorate’s table is, in essence, a...

The airlift is about to begin

Wednesday, 6 March 2013, 08:55 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

The airlift is about to begin. Or maybe it already has begun. From all over the world (we choose our words carefully) people are leaving to come to Malta so as to be able to vote on...

The final week

Tuesday, 5 March 2013, 09:41 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

We have entered the final week of the election campaign, with polling set for Saturday, just a few days away.   The ante has been upped, with the Nationalist Party seemingly asking its...

The last attempts

Monday, 4 March 2013, 09:33 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

We’re nearly at the end of a grueling election campaign, the longest one since the 1987 election which then took three months.   This time, it was nine weeks long, but it seems that we...

Crunch time

Sunday, 3 March 2013, 09:14 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Finally, it is crunch time. After eight very long weeks of campaigning, and an unofficial election campaign that has dragged on for over a year, the electorate at long last goes to the polls on...

This is the right strategy

Friday, 1 March 2013, 10:10 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

No matter which party is elected to govern Malta on 9 March, there is no doubt that we should continue with the same strategy for tourism, and continue to build on the record success registered year...

Back to campaign basics

Thursday, 28 February 2013, 08:20 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

With ten days left to this exhaustive, protracted election campaign, it is now high time that both the main political parties returned to the basics, the brass tacks of the campaign. And by that we...

What on earth?

Wednesday, 27 February 2013, 16:39 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

So far, the biggest gaffe in the propaganda war had been our Smurf Prime Minister, as so ‘cleverly’ depicted by some PN strategist or another. We have been through this already – it...

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