Malta’s Labour Wins Elections With 55% of Vote, Projections Show
By Blanche Gatt & Karl Stagno Navarro -
2013-03-10T10:59:57Z
Malta’s Labour Party has won national elections for the first time since the start of the euro with 55 percent of the vote in the biggest landslide since at least 1964, early projections show.
Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi has called Labour leader Joseph Muscat to concede defeat, Nationalist Party Secretary General Paul Borg Olivier said on Malta television.
Voting took place yesterday between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m., with total turnout of 93.1 percent, a slight drop since the last general elections in 2008, which saw turnout of 93.3 percent.
To contact the reporter on this story: Blanche Gatt in London at bgatt@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Jeffrey Donovan at jdonovan26@bloomberg.net
More News:
- Eastern Europe ·
- Europe ·
- France ·
- Germany ·
- Italy
Sponsored Link
Rate this Page
Bloomberg moderates all comments. Comments that are abusive or off-topic will not be posted to the site. Excessively long comments may be moderated as well. Bloomberg cannot facilitate requests to remove comments or explain individual moderation decisions.