The Nationalist Party has congratulated Malta's sixth MEP Joseph Cuschieri.

This, it said, was good news for Malta as the country will now have a stronger voice in the European Parliament.

It said that Opposition leader Joseph Muscat and MEP Joseph Cuschieri should now admit how wrong they were in their scaremongering tactics when they tried to scare the Maltese of membership.

Malta was now a protagonist in the EU and it had six seats, far cry from the two seats Labour had insisted Malta would get if it became a member.

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