Partit Demokratiku leader Marlene Farrugia said the Labour government spent taxpayers’ cash to push people to vote for it.

Dr Farrugia, whose party ran on the Nationalist Party ticket in the form of a coalition, posted a video on her Facebook wall in which she admitted that nobody could have predicted such a large victory for Labour.

“Who would have thought that the Maltese people would give its approval to a corrupt government,” she said. “But that is what the Maltese people wanted. Our mission does not stop here – this is just half the country,” she said.

“We will continue to choose Malta, and insist that we want a clean government, that our reputation internationally is restored once again, and that our country manages to attract more investment.”

Farrugia said her party would still work to “protect our country from the damage this government is wreaking on it.”

“If this government bought everyone up using tax money, we cannot blame the people for having been blinded and having believed [Muscat].”

Farrugia said the party would remain active outside of parliament if it does not win a seat in parliament.

Farrugia also said that she had been receiving abusive phone calls.