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Title: | The 2003 Maltese EU referendum and general election |
Authors: | Fenech, Dominic |
Keywords: | Malta -- Politics and government Referendum -- Malta European Union -- Malta Elections -- Malta |
Issue Date: | 2003 |
Publisher: | Frank Cass |
Citation: | Fenech, D. (2003). The 2003 Maltese EU referendum and general election. West European Politics, 26(3), 163-170. |
Abstract: | On 12 April, the Maltese voted to return the Nationalist Party (PN) to office in what was, by Maltese standards, another landslide victory over the Malta Labour Party (MLP). Although a margin in excess of four percentage points between these two parties has been achieved before, in 1992 and 1998, such a gap was not expected this time, as both parties braced themselves for a tortuous count and a photo finish, while the third party, Alternattiva Demokratika (AD), entertained high hopes of gaining at least one seat in parliament. Such forecasts stemmed from a general feeling that the PN had been in office for 16 years, discounting as but a slight interruption the hapless Labour administration of 1996–98. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/15878 |
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