Ruling Labour Party wins Malta's parliamentary elections again

Malta's ruling Labour Party has won the country's parliamentary elections for the fourth consecutive time.

According to Reuters, journalists monitoring the vote count reported that the Labour Party secured a comfortable parliamentary majority.

However, the party's latest victory was smaller than the 55% of the vote it achieved four years ago.

The parliamentary elections were held on Saturday, with voter turnout reaching 87.4%, slightly higher than in the 2022 general election.

Malta's Prime Minister, Robert Abela, said on Sunday that his Labour Party had achieved a record fourth consecutive victory in a general election.

"This is a ‌victory of all the people based on the programme we presented for all the people," Abela told reporters, saying ​results showed his party had "won a strong ​mandate."

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Charles Bonello, the secretary-general of the opposition Nationalist Party, conceded defeat but said his party had nevertheless succeeded in reducing the Labour Party's majority.

Abela, who succeeded Joseph Muscat as leader of the Labour Party in 2020, is scheduled to be sworn in for a new term on Monday morning.

As previously reported, Robert Abela became Malta's prime minister in 2020 after taking over the leadership of the Labour Party.

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