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...
The Italian shock could be ours as well
Wednesday, 27 February 2013, 08:38
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
Much of our country’s lifestyle inspiration, and not just football, comes from our neighbour to the North. But immersed in the minutiae of our own electoral campaign, most people have had no...
Another bailout fast approaching
Tuesday, 26 February 2013, 08:30
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
Just as Malta registered the second highest GDP growth rate for 2012, news came that another small country – Slovenia – is on the brink of a bailout as its government verges on...
Only two weeks to go
Monday, 25 February 2013, 08:43
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
Well. Actually it’s less than two weeks. But the campaign will kick off in earnest now, as the political parties make the final push before going to the polls. Yesterday saw the...
What happened to the policies?
Sunday, 24 February 2013, 09:19
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
Those members of the of the electorate who have not become totally engrossed with the Nationalist and Labour cross-party allegations of rampant corruption, illicit wall clocks and blocks of ice, or...
Pretty poor behaviour
Friday, 22 February 2013, 13:41
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
Let us forget the quality of the arguments put forward by students during the MCAST debate this week and let us just focus on the general behaviour of the crowd. It was actually hard to...