The monthly opinion polls will most probably be published today and they will be carefully studied, coming after the first months of the new PN leader and the Budget Speech. Maybe too they could be leading up to the election.
I am writing on the assumption that Alex Borg will register an improvement in his figures but not so much that would ensure him of a victory in the election.
I can propose to him a controversial politician who last week registered a huge electoral victory against considerable odds that included Donald Trump, the Republican Party and the State of Israel - Zohran Mamdani, the first Muslim to become Mayor of the most Israeli city in America, New York, even though the very idea will appear to be anathema to supporters of Israel.
To understand how the victory was reached, the Jewish voters had to suspend belief in a large part of the Jewish campaign against Mamdani, which at the end was not believed by the New York voters - that he is a Communist, that he hates Jews, etc. Borg still has to battle against the massive attacks by the Labour media and they are not so easily shaken off.
On the contrary, as shown by the support he was given by left-wing Democrats like Bernie Sanders, and especially Barak Obama, Mamdani supported the traditional Democratic line and it was not so extremist at all.
One important policy went directly against Trump's anti-immigrant campaign. America, Mamdani stressed, is a nation of immigrants.
He was also helped by the young wife of Syrian origin which he married during the campaign.
This reminds me of something that I feel is not being properly utilised here - the important novelty of Borg's partner. Sarah Bajada does not just look good, she is also followed as an influencer and when she says something, she makes a lot of sense.
But then I'm afraid Alex Borg is too much constrained by the party's media machine that is having him jumping through hoops and not being really himself.
Last week, for instance, we saw he has lost control over his contender, Adrian Delia, who went on a rampage that did not do good to the party's image. This is apart of Paula Mifsud Bonnici's silliness.
The party must come up with real proposals rather than keep repeating itself and making people remember a past that whatever it says was not all that glorious.
It must also apologise for the mistakes of the past terms in government.
Like others, I have been shocked to see people from the past, like Beppe Fenech Adami and Mario de Marco, seemingly occupying key positions in today's PN.
On the other hand, Labour, for all the banging on desks, is clutching at straws, as it showed on the issue of the three hospitals, an issue which I could not understand and which I think many like me can't understand.
Robert Abela, I felt, is so stressed out that he could not even come out with a valid point, the comparison between the time of his grandfather and that of his father without making a complete mess of things.
But he was not allowed to make a proper speech in the House and the culprit here is the ineffectual Speaker of the House who has surely passed his sell-by date.
Abela continues to make a mess of things whether it's the deficit, the traffic jams, the cronyism and getting tied up in things generally.
Now when we get the sweetener cheque we must remember his miracle Budget gave us pensioners the equivalent of half a loaf of bread a day. That's all.
History note
The Island Order State on Malta and its harbour 1530 - 1624
A paper by Emanuel Buttigieg and Joan Abela applies the Island Order State (IOS) approach to analyse Hospitaller Malta from 1530 to 1624, focusing on its economic and ritualistic dimensions.
It highlights how Malta's harbour transformed into a dynamic socio-economic hub under the Order, emphasising the significance of notarial evidence in understanding everyday life and the interplay between culture and conflict during this period.
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