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14 maltatoday | SUNDAY • 19 MAY 2019 MaltaToday Survey and Trust Barometer, 19 May 2019 Between Adrian Delia and Joseph Muscat whom do you trust most? Joseph Muscat Adrian Delia Neither Don't know 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 50.6% 22.8% 23.2 3.4% 19 May 2019 pp change 5 May 2019 Trust barometer among different categories of voters ALL PL 2017 PN 2017 AD 2017 Patriots 2017 Did not vote 2017 PL now PN now AD now PD now Patriots now Imperium Europa now 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 50.6% 22.8% 23.2% 90.1% 7.1% 8.3% 53.3% 33.2% 100.0% 100.0% 22.6% 10.5% 59.4% 7.5% 98.1% 77.1% 19.2% 36.9% 63.1% 42.6% 57.4% 100.0% 8.5% 91.5% Joseph Muscat Adrian Delia Trust neither Don't know Trust barometer among different groups All Male Female 18-35 36-50 51-65 65+ Primary Secondary Post-Sec Tertiary Gozo Northern Northern Harbour South Eastern Southern Harbour Western 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 50.6% 22.8% 23.2% 47.4% 25.8% 25.2% 54.3% 19.3% 20.9% 48.3% 14.4% 32.7% 51.2% 23.0% 22.3% 46.3% 28.7% 21.7% 60.1% 28.0% 10.1% 66.8% 17.9% 11.1% 53.8% 26.5% 16.0% 49.2% 12.3% 34.5% 39.0% 24.4% 34.4% 51.8% 22.8% 25.4% 46.7% 17.4% 30.3% 47.1% 29.9% 20.1% 59.4% 18.2% 18.7% 53.5% 19.6% 23.2% 48.3% 21.5% 27.1% Joseph Muscat Adrian Delia Neither Don't Know Which political party would you vote for if a general election were to be held tomorrow? NEWS EUROPEAN ELECTIONS ADRIAN Delia's trust level contin- ues to be hampered by a third of Nationalist Party voters who trust neither of the two main leaders, a MaltaToday survey shows. The PN leader's trust rating at 22.8% advanced by almost two points on the previous survey pub- lished at the beginning of May. The latest survey was held between Thursday 9 May and Wednesday 15 May. Delia trails Joseph Muscat by a wide margin but his biggest problem is the lack of trust from those who voted PN in the last general election. Among this cohort, Delia secured the trust of 53.3%. But significantly, 33.2% said they trusted no one and 8.3% now trust Muscat. Delia's numbers are striking when compared to Muscat's. The Prime Minister registered an overall trust rating of 50.6%, a one- point decline. But Muscat retained the trust of 90.1% of 2017 PL vot- ers. The results show that 7.1% of PL voters trust none of the two leaders and 1.5% now trust Delia. Muscat's trust rating trumps De- lia's among males and females, across all ages and all regions. The Prime Minister's strongest trust rating is among those aged 65 and over, where he scored 60.1%. His weakest (46.4%) was among those aged between 51 and 65. Delia's strongest (28.8%) trust rat- ing was among those aged 51 and 65 and weakest (14.4%) among the young. Muscat's strongest trust ratings were registered in the South Eastern (59.4%), Southern Harbour (53.6%) and Gozo (51.8%) regions. Delia's strongest showing was in the Northern Harbour region with 29.9%, followed by Gozo (22.8%). Methodology The survey was carried out between Thursday 9 May and Wednesday 15 May. 849 respondents opted to com- plete the telephone survey. Stratified random sampling based on gender, region and age was used to replicate the Maltese demographics. The esti- mated margin of error is 4.2% for a confidence interval of 95%. A third of PN voters do not trust Delia KURT SANSONE Just over half of those who voted PN in 2017 say they trust Delia today, which leaves the PN leader short of the trust of at least 33.2% (and there are more of these voters who now say they trust Muscat, than there are PL voters who say they trust Delia) While over 98% respondents who say they will vote Labour trust Muscat, the vote for the PN this time around is not as intimately linked to Delia, with only 77% say they trust Delia, while another 19% say they trust neither leader Delia's greatest support can be found in the traditional PN strongholds of the northern harbour, amongst those aged 51- 65, and secondary-educated, and gives Muscat a run for his money among the university educated