Momentum is appealing for electoral reform after none of its and ADPD's candidates were elected this past general election, despite the parties accumulating nearly 9,000 votes between them.
In its statement on Sunday, Momentum said that under the current electoral system, ADPD and Momentum did not have a single candidate elected to Parliament - not even through the proportionality mechanism or the gender corrective mechanism.
On the former, it said that "the 4,700 citizens who voted for Momentum, and the 3,994 who voted for ADPD, will not have a single representative in the new Parliament, despite together casting enough votes to merit two seats under our system of proportional representation."
Regarding the gender corrective mechanism, Momentum called the way this system operates as "troubling," stating that as things stand, "seats will be allocated to candidates who received far fewer than 1,000 votes."
Momentum said that it supports measures to encourage boosted representation of women in parliament, though believes that "there is a profound injustice in a system that creates a mechanism to correct one democratic deficit while ignoring another entirely."
It cited that ADPD chairperson Sandra Gauci was discriminated against by the gender corrective mechanism because she contested the general election with a "smaller party."
"Not a single mechanism exists to give her or her voters a voice, instead the gender corrective mechanism discriminates against her by explicitly skipping her," Momentum said.
ADPD and Momentum decided to cooperate with one another during the 2026 general election after weeks of suggestions that a coalition might brew between them resulted in them joining forces while remaining as separate entities.
Together, they coordinated which of their candidates were to contest which electoral districts, to attempt to maximise the power of the transferability of votes under the Maltese single transferable voting (STV) system.
Momentum said that it "will continue to press for comprehensive electoral reform that gives every vote its proper weight."
It added that "Malta's democracy cannot be complete while thousands of citizens are represented by no one."
"The men and women who shaped this country's democratic history did not fight for a parliament that works for two parties only. The 8,694 people who voted for Momentum and ADPD last Saturday deserve representation," Momentum's General Secretary, Mark Camilleri Gambin said.
Momentum highlighted this historic Sette Giugno event and said that "as Malta pauses to remember the six men who died in 1919 for the democratic rights of their compatriots, a new parliament is about to be sworn in that still deliberately excludes the votes of thousands of Maltese citizens."
Momentum said that after 107 years since the events of Sette Giugno, smaller parties have gone unrepresented in Parliament for decades.
Citing this recent election's results, it said that until this year's election, "roughly one national quota's worth of voters went unrepresented with each general election" and that this number tripled in the 2026 general election.
"Our forebears died for democratic ideals on this day in 1919. Are the present generations prepared to simply accept that nearly 9,000 of their fellow citizens' votes are ignored, and that their rightful representatives are denied a seat at the table?" Momentum said.