In Malta the voting age issue can be solved quite easily. Being that most vote for the party their parents voted for, a new law should be passed requiring the parents to indicate on the birth certificate, the infant would be voting for, for the rest of his/her life.

This will be most beneficial in three ways:

1. The voting age would be inconsequential and any infant capable of marking a cross on the party of the parents’ choice would be allowed to vote.

2. The declining birth rate will be solved within a decade because then the political parties would compete and produce more children to ensure their party is elected and/or reelected.

3. The economy will receive a boost since there will be a surge in sales of nappies, baby food, clothing and there will be an expansion of daycare centres, and better and more efficient use of our schools, more teachers, etc.

Stranger still, is that the MLP (Mintoff Labour Party) has not pushed for it yet. Is Joseph afraid that 18 year old first time voters at, or heading for tertiary education, would vote NP because an MLP government would change their stipends into loans?

Or, maybe because they will phase out scholarships, courses will be slashed and to qualify for entry to University or MCAST would require vetting by the local MLP club committee or Labour minister?

Supporters of the MLP will rarely switch to NP because the fact that they still support the Socialists is only because the trait is inherited, like DNA is. So, the MLP should feel quite safe in this regard. But Joseph may be thinking that this would be too ‘progressive’?.

Therefore it should give one the right to vote automatically. But I doubt Labour will oppose this as they are so liberal and pro-divorce and progressive.

Relatives who had to leave Malta to pursue their medical profession.

No they don’t. Where did you get this information?

If I’m not mistaken, the Maltese residing in Britain have the right to vote given their ex-colonial status.

If Gozo were a Maltese colony, you’d have the vote.

For all our religious paraphernalia this country sure as hell ‘aint’ got no trust floating around its citizens .

There are adults who do not vote with their brains. The passion of political zealots is only tempered by those that tend to take politics with a pinch of salt.