It will be a long night for the candidates tonight as their votes are counted. Here are the comments of a few of them.

PN Deputy leader Simon Busuttil said that once he has been elected to the Maltese parliament, he will resign from the European Parliament next week. He still has to decide whether to present himself as a candidate in the PN leadership election or seek re-election as deputy leader.

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