Any election has moments which break the tension, and what happened in Qawra this morning was one of them.

While Tourism Minister Edward Zammit Lewis was speaking at a Labour Party press conference, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat sneezed once, and then a second time, probably because of the sun’s glare.

Minister Zammit Lewis stopped midway through his sentence to say “Evviva” (Bless you) to Dr Muscat, as the two and others at the conference shared a laugh together before the event could continue.

Our videographer Michael Camilleri caught the moment on his camera.