Labour leader Joseph Muscat this evening made an appeal to disgruntled Nationalist voters still wavering about voting PL, telling them "righteousness does not always pick the same side".
Saying he had "never felt as serene" as he did at this juncture, Dr Muscat delved back into recent Maltese history, noting that the PL had not won any elections in the 60s despite being "undoubtedly in the right" at the time.
"Likewise," Dr Muscat continued, "the PN was on the right side of history in the 80s, when it was time for a change. We have come to acknowledge that. And now it's also time for a change."
He thought back to the start of his tenure as party leader. "We sat around a table and asked ourselves: Could the people always be wrong? Could it be us?' And we listened."
But the PL leader was overshadowed by theatre old hand Kevin Drake who spoke movingly - and at length - about his life, his struggle with chronic fatigue syndrome, and his hopes for the future.
"I am here on behalf of those who have come to the end and whose hope has run out," he told PL leader Joseph Muscat. "We need more hope."
He spoke of his revulsion at being told, by a Nationalist friend, "your mother must be turning in her grave" at hearing that he had agreed to take part in the One TV show.
"I want to see a better tomorrow, and we must remember that which unites us is far greater than that which sets us apart," he said. At the end of his "tour de force", as banker John Consiglio described it, Mr Drake stood up, looked into the camera and began to recite the national anthem.
The verse "sow unity and peace among the Maltese" Seddaq il-għaqda fil-Malti u s-sliem, brought the audience to its feet.
Mr Consiglio criticised Malta's political class for its tribal nature, with politicians anxiously tallying up points against one another. "It's 40 years behind the times," he said, ending with a Socratic quote - "Wise indeed is he who changes his mind".
Geologist Peter Gatt expressed his disappointment that Malta had not done much to exploit its disproportionately large continental shelf, which is 200 times the size of the Maltese islands.
And according to university lecturer Karen Mugliett, the PN campaign was less about explaining its proposals and more about "undermining the credibility of the PL and Joseph Muscat". Dr Mugliett is also the wife of Jesmond Mugliett, one of three PN MPs barred from contesting this election on the Nationalist ticket.