**Don’t turn family leave into a bidding war, businesses tell politicians** *By Hot Malta Staff* Valletta – Maltese employers are pleading with MPs to stop treating parental leave like an auction, warning that competing electoral promises risk piling unsustainable costs on already-stretched island firms. The plea comes after both major parties floated rival extensions to…
# Former MEP hopeful’s late expense return sent back to court in rare electoral replay Valletta – A former candidate who stood for Malta in last June’s European Parliament election has had her campaign-expense case sent for a full re-hearing after filing her declaration two weeks past the legal deadline, the Commissioner for Standards in…
Live: Alex Borg declares ‘new PN chapter’ in dramatic race with Adrian Delia By Aria Zammit, Hot Malta Newsroom Floriana’s Granaries were still echoing with the brass-band strains of a village festa when Alex Borg stepped onto the impromptu stage, sleeves rolled, voice hoarse, and declared, “Il-PN tiegħu spiċċa – il-PN tagħna għadu kif beda.”…
PN to Elect New Leader Today: A Nation Watches as the Opposition Turns the Page Valletta’s morning cafés are buzzing louder than usual. By the time the church bells of St John’s Co-Cathedral strike ten, delegates of the Nationalist Party (PN) will be locked inside the old Phoenicia Hotel ballroom, deciding who gets to wake…
