Outgoing ADPD chairperson Carmel Cacopardo will be filing a Constitutional Case on Wednesday to challenge Malta’s electoral law after his party achieved a national vote count which is higher than a quota in Saturday’s general election.

ADPD obtained 4,747 first count votes, higher than the national quota of 4,542. The party had said even before the general election that if it were to achieve enough votes it would challenge the electoral result in the Constitutional Court.

The challenge is with a view of achieving one seat in Parliament, in reflection of the fact that they have exceeded the national quota with their total number of votes.

Malta’s electoral law already offers a proportionate number of seats to the parties whose candidates are individually elected in constituencies, as it has in fact done in the case of the PN, who were granted two extra seats in Parliament on Monday to properly reflect the percentage of votes achieved by the party.

Cacopardo yesterday announced that he will be calling time on his tenure as leader of ADPD, only a day after the party put in a much improved showing in the general election when compared to five years ago.