So 35,000 people who voted Labour last year do not approve of this government.

The total number of votes polled by the PN this year is 300 more than that of 5 years ago: 100,785 (got this from the Electoral Comission’s official results).

Although the 34,000 deficit between the two still exists, it is important that this result should be examined carefully.

All this talk of the PN “getting the message” is disingenuous and part of the bullying tactics used by Muscat to get what he wants: a Malta with no opposition.

We see these numbers and statistics, but what we are not seeing, or rather admitting, is that behind those votes and statistics are lots of made up jobs, building permits, parking bays, favours and other undemocratic activity that Malta is once again being dragged into.

Typical Labour, complaining about the existence of poverty but then going around and actually creating the perfect environment for poverty to flourish in: the existence of many informal networks involving the political class that create vulnerable and detached communities that hate one another.

The message the electorate sent is clear: buy our vote and we will vote for you. Is this the country we want? Is this the type of democracy we want? I think not.

It’s true that, in a country that doesn’t have much money, people get tired of making sacrifices and having to make do. It’s true that life is a scary place without money. It’s true that some sections of society in Malta are resentful and afraid of others, but I believe that the Maltese are above all this, and that we should remember that we are the children and grandchildren of a generation that survived the war.

Where is that George Cross spirit today? I think it is needed, because with it we can bring back formality and respect towards our political institutions which we lost under Mintoff and can’t seem to get back. My generation, for example, have no knowledge of it.

Therefore all these “journalists” and “commentators” that seem to always toe the PL party line as though the Party Whip is breathing down their backs had better check themselves before deceiving themselves and others or they will find themselves just as guilty once the truth, which Muscat seems hell bent on concealing for some reason, comes out, like they did when the passport scheme surfaced, or when the push backs were announced.

Actually, considering that the PL pulled out all the stops to bring out its vote, while the PN didn’t even bother with street leaders this time round, Joseph Muscat has reason to worry a lot more about the 90,000+ voters who failed to show up or voted for the smaller parties than for the perceived losses he inflicted on the Nationalist Party.

Those 90,000+ voters are the virgin territory that the PN needs to win back. Those are the voters who didn’t fall for Muscat but who at the same time are still angry at the PN for one reason or another.

PN got 39%, 39.6%,38.8% of cast votes in 04,09,14 respectively.
PL got 47.4%, 53.5%, 51.6% of cast votes in 04,09,14 respectively.

One can say that 2% of cast voters are convinced that the PL delegates in EP are underperforming.

This can also mean that 39% of cast voters consistently prefer the PN at the EP. Meanwhile the rest 61% are undecided between PL, AD, Norman Lowell and all others.

Seems that the so called floaters float only between PL and everyone else and never towards PN. It does say something and the floaters preferences.