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Three kinds of switchers

Thursday, 1 June 2017, 10:36 Last update: about 10 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

This intense electoral campaign has come to an end. Now it is all in your hands. This is when power really goes to the people. This is how we celebrate our democracy. Although surveys are showing...

A vote for Labour

Thursday, 1 June 2017, 07:53 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

All governments come and go with their share of merits and defects. This certainly also holds for the Labour administration led by Joseph Muscat. And one needs as in all such instances, to establish...

The future of our children at stake - Therese Comodini Cachia

Wednesday, 31 May 2017, 12:01 Last update: about 10 years ago Therese Comodini Cachia

Next Saturday all of us need to make a decision. We have to decide on the state of the country we want to live in.  We have three Magisterial inquiries going on at the moment and also another...

It’s complicated

Wednesday, 31 May 2017, 07:57 Last update: about 10 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

The meme on Facebook showing a super-imposition of the face of person with down’s syndrome on that of the Prime Minister was not only of bad taste but has embodied this election campaign. ...

A challenge to Konrad and Keith

Tuesday, 30 May 2017, 12:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Stephen Calleja

Less than 60 hours remain till the end of the election campaign. Mizzi and Schembri were the new faces of Labour before the 2013 election. Labour was promising heaven on earth at the time, and...

Jien naghzel Malta

Tuesday, 30 May 2017, 08:02 Last update: about 10 years ago Gejtu Vella

The hectic days, particularly for the political leaders and their respective teams, are drawing to a close.   All party leaders, but particularly the Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and the...

Green and clean: beyond land use planning and hunting

Tuesday, 30 May 2017, 08:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

It is obvious to everyone that the environment is nowadays an integral part of the political lexicon of all the political parties in Malta. Whether this is out of conviction or out of convenience is,...

Negative

Monday, 29 May 2017, 08:17 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

The PN’s election campaign has been so negative that it completely drowned whatever good leads it could have raised regarding better governance for the country. Those who remained sceptical...

Godfrey Farrugia and the politics of truth

Monday, 29 May 2017, 08:16 Last update: about 10 years ago Simon Mercieca

There is no doubt that Prime Minister Joseph Muscat is not at ease with the way he has dealt with Godfrey Farrugia, who is now being branded by the Labour campaign machine a traitor and defector. Such...

Corruption claims are the core issue

Sunday, 28 May 2017, 10:30 Last update: about 10 years ago Noel Grima

As we near Election Day and as the parties strain their utmost to garner every floating vote lying around, the tension has now sky-rocketed and will remain so until midday next Sunday, by which time...

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