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Malta

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2026

Dominic Fenech
Dominic Fenech*
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Faculty of Arts, University of Malta, Msida, Malta
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In its second year of office following long years in opposition, Labour (PL) governed energetically and with calculation, its fundamental political challenge being to hold together the coalition of disparate sectors of the electorate, some won over from the rival political camp, which gave it its landslide victory the year before. The PL proved to be as skilful in political balancing between voter groups as in fending off volleys from the Nationalist Party (PN), itself trying very hard to find its own balance between being an effective opposition and not seeming to be a negative one.

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Political Data Yearbook , Volume 54 , Issue 1 , December 2015 , pp. 207 - 212
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Copyright © 2016 European Consortium for Political Research

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