The Labour Party's proposal of eradicating integral parts of towns like Birkirkara, Naxxar and Marsaskala from their geographic, historical and cultural contexts and lumping them with other non-homogeneous parts of our country is a cheap and desperate attempt by Abela's Labour Party to cling on to power, the Momentum party said.

Momentum Chairperson Arnold Cassola said that this exercise in "district gerrymandering has been going on for the last sixty years. It has to stop now. In order to avoid such tinkering with the electoral districts by the incumbent party, proportional representation has to be introduced, supplemented by a reasonable national quota."

If the two big parties cannot agree on this, Momentum said it believes that the second best option is that proposed by the Chamber of Commerce, corrected to ensure that Gozo would remain a single district on its own.

"In real terms, this would translate into four different Maltese regions-electoral districts, each returning 10 MPs, while Gozo remains a single district returning five MPs."