Local elections
Malta ruling party loses local elections, from Reuters:
Malta's ruling Nationalist Party lost local elections in a third of Malta's localities, with the opposition Labor Party winning 53.2 percent of the votes, official results showed on Sunday. The elections, held on Saturday, could be the last test before general elections due to be held in Malta by the middle of next year. The Nationalist Party won 44 percent of the vote with the rest going to independent candidates.More from MaltaMedia
The Nationalists have lost all four local elections held since the party formed a government on a platform to take Malta into the EU in 2003. Malta joined the European Union a year later. Nationalist Party officials said turnout at the local election was only 68 percent, which they said was an indication that many traditionally Nationalist voters had stayed away.
posted by Robert Micallef at 3/11/2007 10:52:00 PM
Reuters correspondents have always had a funny way of dealing with electoral statistics. It all depends on their man-on-the-spot, of course. In Malta's case for example, Labour's great victory was given the right electoral percentage -- 53.2, but when it came to the governing Nationalists it hoisted their 43.9 to 44. That way it sounded more decent, I guess the spinning reporter intended to say.
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