The Nationalist Party has filed a constitutional application, insisting it lost the election by seven parliamentary seats not nine.
In a fresh court application filed yesterday, the PN said its candidates Claudette Buttigieg (née Pace) and Frederick Azzopardi failed to be elected from the eighth and 13th districts respectively due to errors in the counting process.
The “serious shortcomings” of the Electoral Commission violated the electorate’s wishes, the proportional representation rule and the European Convention’s human right to free elections, the PN argued.
Had one or both of the PN candidates been elected, Parliament’s composition would translate into a seven-seat majority for Labour instead of the nine seats awarded, the PN insisted, citing the proportional representation formula outlined in the electoral law.
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