Take a look at this
If this is accurate, then the Labour Party’s big slip in the polls coincided with the first news of the sale of passports back in October, and it hasn’t recovered since.
The Nationalist Party’s recovery also began at the same time and has held out for the same period.
This is despite the promise of One Billion Euros to be made from selling passports, which indicates that people have deep-rooted reservations about selling citizenship that cannot be overcome by the promise of money.
And still the government is going ahead.
I sense that much of the anger about this is not just due to concerns about selling citizenship but about the fact that the Labour Party hid this main tranche of its plans from the electorate and while speaking about everything under the sun, did not even allude to it, still less include it in the electoral programme.
So people feel cheated and hoodwinked, that they’ve been gulled. Nobody likes that.
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http://malta-surveys.com/election-polls.html
And I suspect there could be a further slip, no matter how minor, once Colero Preca becomes President.
Which is makes it all the more tragic that the Nationalist Party has decided to back down now that’s it’s got the upper hand.
Simon Busuttil should really fire all his advisors.
What advisors?
He can’t very well fire himself.
The PN presented a set of amendments, most noticeably the twelve month period being effective.
If Muscat kicks these out, he’ll have some more flights to take and explaining to do. The idea isn’t just to combat the contents, it’s about uncovering the web of deceit he’s spun himself into.
Fact is yesterday’s ONE carried ‘Il-PN kontra l-approvazzjoni tal-EU fuq l-IIP.’ Guess who can’t engage.
The real problem is the press.
Saviour Balzan’s ranting about Lou Bondi’, even when he gets a daily show on TVM. Must be the dwindling audience.
The Prime Minister can not do anything about it unless Henley say so. Simon Busuttil is at a great disadvantage because he doesn’t have the resources and tools to manipulate perception as John Dalli’s party in power has.
Simon Busuttil has a first class brain. If only he would move on from the Xarabankian tactics of his predecessor.
Bribes aren’t the only way to win elections.
What happened in September? There seems to be a considerable variance on both sides.
[Daphne – Not necessarily in September. That’s the slide down from September to October. The furore about passports got going in early October. The first intimations were here (7 October): http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/10/coming-soon-malta-to-sell-eu-citizenship-to-selected-chinese-oligarchs-communist-party-officials-and-favourites-and-others/%5D
I think that dip coincides with reports of the PN’s financial troubles and employees left waiting for their salary.
As the understanding sinks in of the potential disaster which will happen should, God forbid, the gas filled tanker do a Big Bang, the residents of Marsaxlokk and Birzebbuga will make the polls sink even further. But Joseph Muscat/MLP are clearly too committed to be able to pull back now and will plough on tirelessly. Pity that the local councils in those areas are politically gagged and will not put in a word for their constituents.
My question is why has Malta Today not even published one opinion poll as they used to do on a monthly basis with the question ” if an election had to be called today how would you vote”.
Saviour’s pen must needs be in, but his heart is long since out.
I guess with this lot in power, Saviour Balzan no longer needs to pitch his ego-trip book to fill his libel fund anymore.
What is it again? “Saying It As It Is”? The title alone speaks volumes.
The above poll is not scientific and is as credible as the voluntary polls in the online editions of the newspapers.
Because they are PL’s plaything my friend.
These are online polls – they bear no resemblance to random polls. I wish the results were reflective of the electorate’s appetite but I cannot give the polls any credibility.
The first true test will be the MEP elections, in my opinion, no matter what people say.
My gut feeling tells me that while the gap between Labour and PN has gone down, Labour still has a comfortable majority, of say around 15,000 votes.
Based on?
Just wait until the 17-storey gas floating storage unit shows up at Marsaxlokk.
Simon Busuttil versus Joey Muscat on Xarabank soon. That should be fun.
Oh but he already declined one opportunity.
I hope the EP elections shed light on the accuracy of this poll.
Too good to be true. Can someone in the know confirm the trend.
And yet the Nationalist Party is being hesitant about forcefully objecting to it. There is nothing to compromise on this immoral scheme. It is nothing short of scandalous.
Meanwhile, the village idiots flock to watch Gensna and are gearing up to celebrate Jum il-Helsien in a few weeks. What a joke!
Now we will have a bonanza in the lowering of fuel and energy prices when these are going up because of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine (don’t say Crimea) and “the people” will feel they’re being taken for a ride.
I’ve been told every pepe’ switcher has been saying as if they voted Muscat, jaqq, they voted Alternattiva. Yeah right, so where’s the votes?
Astrid and her agglomeration of culture vultures included.
Yes, I’ve heard that too. Funny isn’t it? I too wonder where all those votes came from.
Mind you, I don’t blame them for being so ashamed to admit, that after all they are not as intelligent as they thought they were. Because let’s face it, I don’t imagine it is very pleasant to realise that one has let somebody like Muscat deceive one so blatantly.
Especially when one thinks that he/she is of a higher intelligence. Poor things.
Same thoughts exactly. If a minority voted PN and these are trying hard to justify they didn’t vote for PL, sad but true, they did. They’re just too embarrassed to admit it. 36,000 votes were made up of these type of testimonials.
You have just made this website (maltasurveys) another democratic tool. Much more people will be using it now.
I tend not to believe this survey. What I see suspicious is that in the months before election day the gap was about 2-3%, then in the elections the gap rose instantly to 13%.
Yet today the survey shows that the PN has an advantage of 2%. So I compare with today’s poll with that of January 2013. So yes, there’s a trend that the PN is recovering but it has only recovered about 4-5%.
Now if 36,000 is equal to 13%, then 4% is 9,000. I assume the Labour Party today has an advantage of about 27,000. Still I’m no survey guru and I may be completely wrong.
This poll might give some more insight on how they stand
http://freeonlinesurveys.com/app/showpoll.asp?qid=428687&sid=g4dt4tndt28uvnf428687&new=True
That is not a scientific poll. I wish it were true.
However, it is indicative of a swing to PN.
I pity you all. I just sit here and laugh :)
They will do one term and it’s goodbye for another 25 years.