These have been very turbulent days for the Nationalist Party supporters and probably no two supporters agree in their analyses.
Many see it as Alex Borg's victory while others prefer to see it as Adrian Delia's failure to get a majority.
Some prefer to think of it as Delia being brought down by a tiny minority which made all the difference.
It is fascinating to note that the PN establishment which backed Delia to the end did not succeed to persuade those who at the end did not vote Delia to stop backing Alex Borg not even after waving the anti-development flag.
If they did not persuade the card-carrying members to moderate or limit development, what chance do they have of persuading non-PN members? That's how difficult it will be for Borg to win the next general election, now fast approaching.
The party managed to cover itself in ridicule in the whole process, taking hours to come out with a result only at 4am and that after the Borg section had been celebrating for hours.
Rumours swirled around, obviously unconfirmed, of a Delia going berserk, banging on tables and threatening lawsuits galore.
He had some reason to do so, a gap of just 44 votes is a rare occurrence anywhere.
The whole problem seemed solved and the party announced that Alex Borg had won the race at 4am only for an anonymous Delia staffer to reopen the whole issue by mid-morning on The Times. This had an impact of a nuclear bomb in Malta's super hot political world.
Then Delia defused everything by denying what his anonymous staffer had told The Times.
People did not know what to believe anymore.
It was in this climate of confusion that PN broadcast a photo of the two leaders sitting amicably in the Leader's office as if they were the greatest of friends (which they say they are).
There are already exercises aiming to turn around the interpretation of what happened.
In the past hours it has been claimed, for instance, that Alex Borg was the candidate of the establishment of the party. That's the first time I ever heard this.
There is a world of difference between the two and Borg would not be where he is now just with explosive remarks or confrontational attitudes. On the contrary he has been all sweetness and light touch. It has delivered. It is a lesson for all of us, no one excluded.
At the very same time that this was happening in Valletta, another handover was taking place - in the Matignon palace in Paris. But the new French PM, Sebastien Lecornu, had to deal with massive riots all over France. Alex Borg may count himself lucky.
The testing time is round the corner - with massive pressure pushing for a Shadow Cabinet reshuffle and/or a Deputy Party Leader post for Adrian Delia.
Will the present incumbent, Alex Perici Calascione, have to be shuffled aside? Or will there be two deputy leaders? I don't even know if there is a specific process to appoint a deputy leader.
Meanwhile the world continues to go to the dogs. Russia continues to test NATO, Israel continues to pull down all the buildings in Gaza City, civil wars continue in Nepal and other flashpoints of the world.
Note of history
Jeremy Johns reviewed Anthony Luttrell's The Making of Christian Malta in the Journal of Islamic Studies, 2004.
Luttrell believes that only conversion from Islam can explain the Maltese phenomenon of Arabic -speaking Latin Christians. That may be right, but it is a pure hypothesis.
If it did happen, Malta is a rare exception. It did not happen with the Muslims of Sicily nor with those of Spain. Why did the Muslims of Malta in the late 13th century come to have Arabic as their speech and Latin Christianity as their religion?
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