MP asks Electoral Commission to investigate
Nationalist MP Censu Galea, speaking in Parliament this evening, said he was calling on the Electoral Commission to investigate how practically half of voting documents in St Paul's Bay and other localities had not been delivered.
He also called on the commission to ensure that voting documents could be picked up from police stations during mornings, and not just afternoons.
Mr Galea's daughter is the mayor of St Paul's Bay.
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Carmel Grima
Feb 29th, 09:01
Fuq San Pawl il-Bahar inqas minn 53% imorru jivvutaw u biex taghaqad ghandna il-problema li hafna voti ma tqassmux. Ghaliex hadd ghadu ma hax responsabilita u jghid ghaliex?
Mario Camilleri
Feb 28th, 08:43
Could this mean that the residents got very much less than promised or may be nothing at all?
And why should and does this bother so much Censu Galea as Nationalist MP?
j brincat
Feb 28th, 08:19
Does it not come to the MP's mind that people may simply not be interested any more in council elections which are a waste of good taxpayers' money?
(jb)
P. Ciantar
Feb 28th, 07:20
there might be many reasons but the most plauseable of all why this is done when people are at work and with todays traffic no one is at home before 6 pm and both husband wife and grandparents work.
Joseph Vassallo, (Bugibba)
Feb 27th, 23:09
I can categorically state that I was at home in Bugibba all day, every day (except Sunday) during the last three weeks and my bell was working because the lift maintenance people rang it and I let them in.
There was no visiting card in my letterbox to say someone had tried to deliver anything, be that the postman or the police. I had my ears wide open too because I knew to expect my voting papers.
The Hon Censu Galea should verify if this might be some sort of strategy to leave half the town's population without their vote in order to potentially influence the result one way or the other.
MALCOLM SEYCHELL
Feb 27th, 22:57
Most people work, especially in areas with an a young average age like St Paul's bay. Maybe it is time to start delivering documents between 5 and 9pm. It makes more sense.
D. A . Agius
Feb 27th, 22:14
Maybe an outdated electoral register system?
Maybe the fact that most people are NOT at home between 8am - 6pm
Maybe that most people are uninterested in rubbish political bickering between the main parties with less time devoted to actually solving issues rather than spending time shooting down the opposition ?
Mr raynond ciancio
Feb 28th, 01:17
you're right there, maybe they are too busy out of the house trying to scrape enough money together to pay their extravagant bills like electric and gas bills
ALBERT FENECH
Feb 28th, 07:34
... or maybe the electorate in the St Paul's Bay area is so totally disgusted at the complete apathy the St Paul's Bay Local Council has shown that they cannot be bothered whether their voting document has been delivered or not and are caring even less to waste time going to the police station to collect it.
ALBERT FENECH
Qawra
Edgar S. Galea
Feb 28th, 08:18
Primarily the present Mayor must be changed. There is a laissez-faire attitude both in Qawra and Bugibba, and parts of St Paul Bay.