"Dazed by the blast... I felt like I was having a bad dream."

Rachel Bugeja, 15, recounting her ordeal after she was jolted from her sleep by falling stonework, when her Naxxar home was rocked by the fireworks' explosion.

"How do you explain to the people celebrating on the streets that the result had changed?"

Gordon Pisani, Nationalist Party director of information, recounting the moment of panic which ensued after a multiplication error in favour of the Labour Party.

"Irrevocable."

Labour leader Alfred Sant on his decision to resign.

"I hope to continue making a contribution till my energy reaches its last drop."

Lawrence Gonzi on being sworn in as Prime Minister after a wafer-thin victory of 1,580 votes.

"I fully understand his position and didn't expect otherwise."

Nationalist MP Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando on the Prime Minister's decision to exclude him from Cabinet.

"This is my new beginning."

Former Education Minister Louis Galea on his failure to be re-elected.

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