Josephine Vella (August 19) missed the point of the ‘logic vs emotion’ argument that I made in a recent television programme.

I was referring to the thousands of people who used to vote for the Nationalist Party and who switched to Labour or refrained from voting in the March 2013 election. In my opinion, they did so because they logically concluded that the PN did not deserve to be re-elected, considering the conduct of the 2008-2013 PN administration.

Parties in Opposition do not win elections. It is parties in government that lose them. More so, when the loss is virtually a manifestation of an extraordinary plebiscite.

The present PN leadership has now recognised that what happened was the result of mistakes by the party in government and this augurs well for the future of the PN.

At the same time, there are still some PN supporters who do not acknowledge these mistakes and insist that those who switched or abstained from voting were wrong because they were stupidly lured by Labour’s promises. This attitude will get the PN nowhere.

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