The people have spoken. And how they have. A resounding go Gonzi, go away. To people my age, or thereabouts, the words go-go are slightly naughty. Go-go dancers were the then tasselled strippers or lap-dancers, to give them their modern name.

Gonzi might be criticised for the way he did many things but he led the country well and maintained the prosperity of our little rock. The BBC itself described Malta as “one of the most successful economies in the Eurozone.” Gonzi nimbly danced and survived battering after battering ironically not from an over-agile Joseph Muscat but from various auto-goals and JPOs, never-ending gaffes, bus and salary-hike débâcles.

The PN in government delivered but had too many demons. Battered and beaten by internal strife, Gonzi managed to hang on to government till just before elections were duly due. His party had a lack-lustre campaign with little to offer except a certificate of good results in these last five years. Hardly enough for an electorate that desires more and ever more.

And the people delivered their ringing, stinging message: out with the PN, a modernising party in 1987 but which in 2013 did not attract the young, the old or the floater. It kept its famed 40% hard-core vote but lost not just the new voters but also the newcomers who had felt comfortable in the party till 5 years ago.

Gonzi now goes and in comes a young, fresh Joseph Muscat with a parliamentary majority that till Sunday was the stuff of dreams, or nightmares, in Maltese politics. The LP has been given an unbelievable mandate. May they know how to continue on the good track the PN has steered this country in. Hardly all was roses in the way the PN government moved but the country was kept in good shape against quite a few odds.

May Joseph Muscat continue to rise in the esteem not just of his supporters but of all of us Maltese and Europeans. I had, and have, my doubts about what he offered and promised—may he prove all us naysayers wrong. And may he be as unifying a force as he talks about.

Good luck to him and his team and may Malta win again. The maturity that was shown in the electoral process, at the counting-hall and in the immediate words that were exchanged between the two party leaders makes me hope in a good future for us all.

Now the hard work for Joseph Muscat starts—far away from the glitz, and completely different from the marketing of a dream and the sounding of mantras and roadmaps. Now it’s time to put actions into words. Go Joseph go. But remember Malta is watching you.