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6 maltatoday | SUNDAY • 7 JULY 2019 NEWS MALTATODAY SURVEY KURT SANSONE ADRIAN Delia's trust rating has plummeted in the wake of May's election results and the internal party turmoil he has faced since, a MaltaToday survey found. The Nationalist Party leader's trust rating crashed back to 15.8% in a survey held a month after the disastrous showing at the polls. The result is on par with the trust rating Delia registered in March, just before the warring factions in the PN declared a truce of sorts in the run-up to the election campaign. In the last survey held a week before the European Parliament election, Delia registered a trust rating of 22.8%. He has experi- enced a seven-point drop since then. The trust gap between De- lia and Prime Minister Joseph Muscat stood at almost 37 points. Muscat saw his trust rating increase by two points to 52.6% since the end-of-May survey, trumping Delia across all age groups and regions. The Prime Minister retained his strength among those who voted for the Labour Party in the 2017 general election with 96.2% re-confirming their trust in him. Delia is less fortunate among Nationalist Party voters in the 2017 election. The PN leader only managed to capture the trust of 38.8% of those who voted for his party in 2017. A more worrying factor is that 50.3% of PN voters said they trusted none of the two leaders and 5.8% trusted Mus- cat. Muscat enjoyed an absolute majority of trust across all age groups, with his strongest showing being among those aged between 51 and 65 where he scored 56.1%. Delia's best showing was among those aged 65 and over, where he scored a trust rating of 24.1%. His worst perfor- mance was among those aged under 35, where he registered a rating of 7.3%. Among the under 35s, Mus- cat registered a trust rating of 52.3%. Muscat soars in the south and Gozo The regional results paint an even bleaker picture for Delia, confirming the outcome of the May elections that saw the PN lose ground in large swathes of the country. Delia's worst performance is in the South-Eastern region where he could only muster a trust rating of 6%. His best performance was in the Western and Northern Har- bour regions where he regis- tered scores of 23.8% and 23.4%, respectively. Muscat's trust rating shot up in the South-Eastern and South- ern Harbour regions in Malta, and impressively in Gozo. The Prime Minister registered a trust rating of 69.9%, 63.4% and 68% respectively in these three regions. Muscat also scored a trust rat- ing of 49.3% in the Northern Harbour region and 47.7% in the Western region. The Prime Minister's worst showing was in the Northern region where he only managed 29.9%. But this is also the region with the highest number of peo- ple who trusted none of the two leaders (61.9%). It has to be noted that St Paul's Bay, which is the largest locality in the Northern region, has been plagued by a lasting waste prob- lem and lack of enforcement, which may have contributed to the disaffection with both politi- cal leaders. Methodology The survey was carried out between Tuesday 25 June and Monday 1 July. 653 respond- ents opted to complete the sur- vey. Stratified random sampling based on gender, region and age was used to replicate the Mal- tese demographics. The esti- mated margin of error is 5% for a confidence interval of 95%. Senior Technical Officer - ICT Jobplus Permit Number – 212/2019 A recognized Advanced Diploma in ICT studies equivalent to MQF Level 5 from a recognized institution and a good level of general education. Knowledge of ICT related applications and experience is a must. CAREER OPPORTUNITY Lands Authority is seeking applications from interested persons to fill the following position: WE ARE RECRUITING ESSENTIAL Qualifications Experience Interested persons are kindly requested to submit a letter of application and a detailed CV only by email, as one pdf document to: hr.la@landsauthority. org.mt by Monday 22nd July 2019. Emails are to indicate the position being applied for and the name of the applicant in the subject. Applications will be acknowledged and treated in strictest confidence. For more information visit the link below: https://landsauthority.org.mt/about-us/careers/ Adrian Delia's trust rating plummets Adrian Delia is less fortunate among Nationalist Party voters in the 2017 election. The PN leader only managed to capture the trust of 38.8% of those who voted for his party in 2017

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