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The north is no longer a Nationalist fortress and the south has squeezed the PN out. Keith Micallef analyses the election results from a geographical perspective The Nationalist Party risks shrinking to a regional political force after losing the local electiIs the PN becoming a regional party?
The north is no longer a Nationalist fortress and the south has squeezed the PN out. Keith Micallef analyses the election results from a geographical perspective The Nationalist Party risks shrinking to a regional political force after losing the local elections by a historic margin of 47,116 votes, even larger than the 42,616 gap in the MEP elections. The PN can now only bank on a majority in a cluster of localities in the centre of the island and has suffered a wipe-out in the south. While this trend was fully exposed in the council elections, unofficial data also show that in the MEP elections the PN only obtained an absolute majority in the 10th district, consisting of Sliema and St Julian’s. As for the rest, it obtained three relative majorities in the eighth, ninth and 11th districts, all of which are in the central-northern region. MEP elections For the PL it was mission accomplished in the elections for the European Parliament. Apart from winning by an unprecedented majority of 16.4 percentage points, the party for the first time won four of the six seats up for grabs. The PN – the party which fought tooth and nail for EU membership – registered its fourth straight loss... Read more