Robert Adela secures first mandate after replacing Joseph Muscat, who stood down amid fallout from Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder
Malta’s Labour party has claimed victory in a general election, securing a third term in government despite a legacy of corruption and after the lowest turnout in decades.
Bernard Grech, the leader of the Nationalist party , congratulated Abela, and the deputy prime minister, Chris Fearne, said Labour’s victory was “sound”, although official results are not expected until the early hours of Monday, the Times of Malta reported. Several opinion polls had pointed to an inevitable win for Labour, mainly off the back of a strong economy and the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Abela, a lawyer, was largely unaffected by repeated allegations of corruption made against him by Grech, even if Labour remains tainted by the corruption within Malta’s political and business elite exposed by Caruana Galizia, who wasplanted beneath the driver’s seat of her rental car as she drove away from her home in the village of Bidnija in October 2017.
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