Matthew Xuereb
Labour leads PN in this round
The police yesterday started distributing voting documents in 34 localities where council elections will be held. Photo: Chris Sant Fournier
The Labour Party has a 3,700 vote difference in its favour with half the localities already having Labour-led councils, an exercise carried out by The Times shows.
Had the Sliema council not been dissolved, Labour would have had a 7,000 swing in its favour.
These figures contrast with Labour leader Joseph Muscat’s repeated declaration, including during a visit to Gżira yesterday, that the March 10 election will be a difficult one for his party.
Figures of first count votes each party received in the last round of elections in the localities going to the polls next month show the Nationalist Party got 57,908 votes while Labour candidates won 61,619.
In the last round, in 2007 or 2008, Labour elected 116 councillors and the PN 110. Alternattiva Demokratika received 2,800 first count votes and elected two candidates.
Vittoriosa, Senglea, Qormi, Żebbuġ, Birżebbuġa, Dingli, Gżira, Ħamrun, Kirkop, Luqa, Marsa, Marsaxlokk, Mosta, Paola, Santa Lucija, Xagħra and Żurrieq all councils with a Labour majority.
In Sliema, Labour candidates received 2,071 first count votes and PN candidates won 5,445.
AD’s chairman, Michael Briguglio, garnered 457 first count votes.
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lilly vella
Feb 5th, 10:49
jonqsu l fondi ghal kunsilli lokali min habba budget fallut.
Angelo Vassallo
Feb 4th, 17:55
Mr Albert Dimech
Iddahhaqniex trid Sur Dimech.
Ir-raguni li fl' Mtarfa meta kien tal-PL qatt ma sar metru tarmac u l-playground tħalla żdingat għal snin sħaħ ghax tal-PL inkompetenti.
Ghaliex fir-Rabat il-kunsill tbażwar biex jipprova jġib fondi tal-EU għall-proġett tal-katakombi ta' Sant Agata? Ghaliex tal-PL inkompetenti.
L-ebda għajnuna mill-gvern u l-anqas edba fondi għal toroq, bħal Vjal il-Ħaddiem li tinsab fi stat diżastruż. ghax tal-PL inkompetenti.
Sur Dimech li kien ghal nies bhalek l-anqas ghandna Kunsilli llum ghax kontu konbtra taghhom u wara U-TURN accettajtu. Qabel fi zmien l-MLP meta jsir xi haga kien ikollna nistennew il-karita tal-ministru biex issir xi triq ZIG ZAG u li tisfronda wara ftit gimghat.
Edward Curmi
Feb 6th, 10:28
NAQBEL 100%
Angelo Vassallo
Feb 4th, 17:39
@ Mr Albert Dimech
Iddahhaq
Ħa nsemmielek jien ftit eżempji Sur Camilleri. Meta il-kunsill tal-Mtarfa kien tal-PL, qatt ma sar metru tarmac u l-playground tħalla żdingat għal snin sħaħ. Wara li nnuqqas ta' għajnuna mill-gvern għin biex il-kunsill spiċċa għand il-PN, saru bosta toroq u issa qed isir il-playgroung, li ovvjament il-kunsill ma għandux fondi biex jagħmel. Fir-Rabat il-kunsill tbażwar biex jipprova jġib fondi tal-EU għall-proġett tal-katakombi ta' Sant Agata, l-ebda għajnuna mill-gvern u l-anqas edba fondi għal toroq, bħal Vjal il-Ħaddiem li tinsab fi stat diżastruż. Le ma tarax li gvern jgħid kunsilli tiegħu u jinjora dawk tal-PL.
Angelo Vassallo
Feb 4th, 15:22
Hamrun, Dingli, Gzira and now Luqa Local Councils which were visited by JM all seem to be a success story according to JM, but of course this success comes ONLY with the millions of euros they receive every year from GONZIPN and/or from the EUROPEAN UNION. Nothing comes from the PL.
A small comment about the Gzira visit, JM visited a BAHH playing field on the outskirts of Gzira. why did the Sindku not take JM to visit the disastrous conditions in which are the streets in GZIRA?
s grima
Feb 4th, 15:17
@micheal seychell sihbi il pjaciri il partit fil gvern l iktar li jista jaghmilom x tahseb? nafu kif tahdem is sistema f pajizna!!!
Michael Seychell
Feb 4th, 14:45
Dr. Joe Muscat is becoming so pathetic when repeating that his Party is the underdog in both the General Elections and even more so in the Local Elections - when all predictions are that he will have the biggest r vicotry for his party, in both the general and local elections.
Michael Seychell
Tal-Pieta
John Mifsud
Feb 4th, 16:18
These predictions may all be part of the PN game so that disgruntled PN sympathizers will flock to deposit their vote, and then they can call a victory and give a boost to their supporters.
Dr Joseph Muscat may be seen as pathetic only by people who think that they are living in Utopia. The PL is certainly the underdog in every election as certain media and bloggers will join forces to 'shoot down', sometimes subtly, every PL proposal. Although I believe that many readers and viewers can read between the lines and are able to choose constructive criticism from the destructive ones.
Richard Caruana
Feb 4th, 12:36
Maybe JM was thinking of the disastrous way Mosta and Zebbug have been run (sic). There might be surprises in at least those two
John Mifsud
Feb 4th, 16:25
Can you please indicate some of the disasters caused by the Mosta Council?
One disaster that the Mosta Council definitely has NOT caused is the squandering of public funds.
I personally wish to thank the Mayor Dr Paul Chetcuti Caruana and many of the PL and PN councillors for their hard work towards the good of Mosta and the Mostin.
Mr Albert Dimech
Feb 4th, 12:17
The Sliema council election needs to be excluded from this round, it was meant to be included in next year's round and it's dissolution now fuels Labour's claim that this is very evidently a strategic move to lift the PN's chances.
Edward Curmi
Feb 6th, 10:30
Yes and leave Sliema without a local council??? Very wise comment showing you are a very egoistic PL supporter!
Joseph Grech Attard
Feb 4th, 12:03
What a confusion!! Have we already started trying to tarnish PL and making Joseph Muscat not credible, cunningly and not necessarily intelligently, by publishing such useless figures? A real "a drowning person clutches at a straw!"
Cecil Herbert Jones
Feb 4th, 11:36
Does your country love you?
R. Gauci
Feb 4th, 11:24
Bl-addizzjoni ta` Tas-Sliema l-affarijiet pero gew aktar ibbilancjati jkolli nirrimarka.
Carmel Xuereb
Feb 4th, 11:03
Mela jiena naqbel ma Dr. Joseph Muscat li dawn huma elezzjonijiet difficli ghal PL ghax il-Gvern ta' Gonzi f'dawn l-ahhar snin ghamel minn kollox sabiex ifixkel il-progress li kienu qeghdin jaghmlu l-Kunsilli b'maggoranza Laburista u fejn kein hemm Kunsill b'maggoranza Nazzjonalista wittielhom it-triq. Ma' trid tara minn ghajn wahda.
A Camilleri
Feb 4th, 11:19
Tina ezempju Sur Xuereb ta fejn il-Gvern fixkel lil Kunsilli b'maggoranza Laburista? Lil Hamrun forsi bil-car park li mar 'jinawgura' Joseph Muscat bhala kap ta l-oppozizzjoni?
Mr Anthony Briffa
Feb 4th, 11:45
Carmel Xuereb don't make blank meaningless comments. Can you prove what you are stating? Don't just follow your leader like when he said that not one single stone had been built on the new oncology hospital, when at the time he spoke it was aready nearly complete in shell form.
The problem with us here in Malta is this mentality, which the labour, for its own ends, never tried to change in tits supporters.
Martha Zerafa
Feb 4th, 12:10
Ma nahsibx li kif qed tighd int ta ghax il kunsil ta San Pawl il bahar ghandu maggoranza nazzjonalista pero San Pawl il bahar qatt ma kien f dan l istat ta telqa!!tal biza u jekk nibda nsemmi ma nieqafx TOROQ PERIKOLUZI,PAVERZ MAQGHLIHIJN PARKEGG TAL BIZA U MA SSIB TIPARKJA MKIEN ANZI JZIEJDU L YELLOW LINES HA NAQGHILAW AKTAR TICKET ETC ETC
Mr Albert Dimech
Feb 4th, 12:27
Ħa nsemmielek jien ftit eżempji Sur Camilleri. Meta il-kunsill tal-Mtarfa kien tal-PL, qatt ma sar metru tarmac u l-playground tħalla żdingat għal snin sħaħ. Wara li nnuqqas ta' għajnuna mill-gvern għin biex il-kunsill spiċċa għand il-PN, saru bosta toroq u issa qed isir il-playgroung, li ovvjament il-kunsill ma għandux fondi biex jagħmel. Fir-Rabat il-kunsill tbażwar biex jipprova jġib fondi tal-EU għall-proġett tal-katakombi ta' Sant Agata, l-ebda għajnuna mill-gvern u l-anqas edba fondi għal toroq, bħal Vjal il-Ħaddiem li tinsab fi stat diżastruż. Le ma tarax li gvern jgħid kunsilli tiegħu u jinjora dawk tal-PL.
Raymond Gauci
Feb 4th, 12:36
Sur Camilleri il-PN anke toqba fl-art imur jiddandan ha jidher fuq in-NET U NET 2 anzi issa jzid ax qed toqrob
jekk ma tigix bl-ARRIVA u ddum seklu (success iehor dan u tghidx kemm iddandan fuq TV
Joe Azzopardi
Feb 4th, 10:49
And yet Joseph Muscat says PL is the underdog. Will the man for once say the truth ?
Lawrence Fenech
Feb 4th, 10:44
Pero Gonzi ser jiehu l-ewwel meta jigri wahdu fit-26 ta' Frar u il komplament iharsu lejh jigri wahdu.
Clint Zammit
Feb 4th, 11:57
Fit 2008 l ewwel gie ukoll
Gordon Borg
Feb 4th, 10:37
issa taghllem minghand Jason Micallef ma jkunx pruzuntus u dejjem ikun l under dog,halli jekk jitlef ma jaqax ac cajt u jekk jirbah jghidu li kien prudenti............
j brincat
Feb 4th, 10:35
Karl Consiglio
"U kif marru l-ezamijiet tal-form 2 dawn?"
Remember that we also had an ex-PM who boasted that he came first in the Matric exams! Do you remember?
(jb)
E Zammit
Feb 4th, 12:18
So............What's your point brother?
Without discounting the importance of the achievements one may obtain at school, one must measure success by what he ultimately achieve in life. And that does not necessarly mean to include politics and how much money you have stached in your bank account, that does not come into the equation here.
Ultimately my friend, our success will be measured by whether we have made the appropiate choices In life which has contributed for the well-being of peace towards thy brethern and for the common good of thy neighbour. Be they white or black, Muslims or Jews or Christians, Labourites or Nationalists, rich or poor, sick or healthy. That and nothing but that, is what really counts.
Karl Consiglio
Feb 4th, 09:28
U kif marru l-ezamijiet tal-form 2 dawn?