**Watch: ‘I would have tried to stop Bernard Grech resigning had I known’ – Delia** In a candid televised moment that has set Maltese living rooms and Facebook comment sections ablaze, former Nationalist Party leader Adrian Delia admitted he would have moved to block Bernard Grech’s recent resignation had he been given advance warning. The…
Inside the PN’s chaotic leadership election night: cheers, tears and a party staring at itself in the mirror By Hot Malta Newsroom Midnight had already tolled from the belfry of Mosta Dome when the first shout went up. “Viva Bernard! Viva Adrian!” The voices clashed, not in unison but in competition, ricocheting off the limestone…
**Cacopardo’s Electoral Surprise: A Tale of Two Parties and One Very Confused Database** Arnold Cacopardo couldn’t believe his eyes when the envelope arrived. Seventeen years after publicly burning his Nationalist Party membership card in protest, the former PN executive committee member had been invited to vote in the party’s upcoming leadership election. “I thought it…
Cacopardo ‘not surprised’ by PN voters dispute, says he was told he could vote By Hot Malta Staff Sliema’s coffee shops were still humming with post-election cappuccino post-mortems when Arnold Cassola dropped the bombshell: “Hundreds of non-members appear on the PN electoral list.” Within minutes, the phone rang in Carmel Cacopardo’s Valletta apartment. “Did you…
Borg, Delia hold first meeting after PN election: a coffee, a handshake, and the ghost of 2017 Valletta’s Café Cordina was still perfumed with pastizzi steam yesterday morning when Bernard Grech’s two erstwhile rivals met for the first time since Saturday’s bruising Nationalist Party leadership contest. Adrian Delia, the ousted leader who refuses to leave…
PN leadership vote stands, commission rules, as Delia’s last-ditch letter fizzles Ħamrun’s narrow side-streets were buzzing yesterday afternoon, not with the usual clatter of pastizzi trays and football talk, but with the latest twist in the Nationalist Party’s marathon leadership saga. After a week of claim and counter-claim, the party’s electoral commission has declared that…
Delia campaign questions eligibility of more than 100 PN leadership voters In a move that is already being dubbed “the carnival before the storm”, the campaign team backing veteran Nationalist Party stalwart Adrian Delia has formally challenged the voting eligibility of more than 100 delegates due to cast ballots in the upcoming PN leadership election….
PN leadership election result a sign of party chaos – Abela Hot Malta, Valletta Prime Minister Robert Abela did not mince words as he stepped off the Auberge de Castille’s sweeping staircase Monday evening, minutes after Bernard Grech scraped through a confidence vote that keeps him at the helm of the Nationalist Party. “What we…
**Alex Borg pledges unity and renewal in first interview as PN leader** In a candid late-night chat at the party’s Pietà headquarters, newly-elected Nationalist Party leader Alex Borg told *Hot Malta* that his first mission is to “bring the PN back to the people’s kitchen tables” after a decade of electoral defeats and internal rifts….
Adrian Delia congratulates Alex Borg on leadership win, thanks supporters: A new chapter for Malta’s Nationalist Party unfolds under Gozitan helm By a show-of-hands vote that felt more village festa than party convention, Alex Borg clinched the leadership of the Nationalist Party (PN) yesterday evening at the party’s Ħamrun headquarters, bringing to a close one…
Thank you to all who believed in me – Adrian Delia on leadership defeat Valletta – The grand doors of the Nationalist Party headquarters in Pietà swung open shortly after midnight, and Adrian Delia stepped out into the humid June air looking lighter than he had in months. Behind him, the yellow façade of Dar…
**Live: Alex Borg wins PN leadership contest by just 44 votes** In a nail-biting finish that will be remembered for years, Alex Borg has clinched the Nationalist Party leadership by a razor-thin margin of just 44 votes, marking one of the closest political contests in modern Maltese history. The extraordinary result came after a tense…
