In his article Electoral Boundaries (June 3) Alfred Sant wrote that the boundaries "are the fairest for all parties during the last 30 years, since 1976 to be exact".

May I remind the person who was Malta Labour Party president during Dom Mintoff's minority regime that, due to the premeditated gerrymandering of electoral districts, the following was the official December 12, 1981 general election result: Nationalist Party 114,132 valid votes = 50.92 per cent of the valid votes cast; Malta Labour Party 109,990 valid votes = 49.07 per cent.

Therefore, the PN, with 4,000 extra valid votes, ended up with only 31 members of Parliament being returned, whereas Labour, with a marked minority of valid votes, ended up by obtaining 34 seats.

Certain "politicians" and "journalists" began to proclaim that in a proportional representation system valid votes did not count at all since, when all was said and done, only parliamentary seats mattered.

One can ask the champion and paladin of democracy Alfred Sant what was the reason why the minority Mintoffian socialist regime then refused BBC and The Times (UK) correspondents entry into Malta, well-knowing that all they intended to do was to carry out their duty by monitoring the election result.

To my mind, any person again aspiring to become the country's Prime Minister should be much more fair and just.

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