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12 maltatoday | SUNDAY • 11 OCTOBER 2020 MALTATODAY SURVEY Chris Fearne's management of the COVID-19 pandemic and Ian Borg's road projects are rewarded by voters in a MaltaToday survey that asked for the best performing minister. KURT SANSONE reports Fearne is top performer for Labourites CHRIS Fearne has been voted as the best performing minister, in a MaltaToday survey with support for the deputy prime minister cutting across the political divide. Fearne, who is also responsible for health, obtained a rating of 27.9% when respondents were asked to indicate one minister who they believe has performed well. The result is in line with expectations given Fearne's sober and re-assuring at- titude throughout the COVID-19 pan- demic. Fearne achieves a rating of 30.8% among Labour voters and 26.1% among Nationalist voters, placing first in both instances. In second place overall, is Infrastruc- ture Minister Ian Borg with 11%. Borg was entrusted in 2017 with government's ambitious plan to overhaul Malta's road network. The young minister has delivered on major road upgrades and others are in the pipeline. Borg achieves a rating of 17.4% among Labour voters, placing second behind Rate The Minister Survey Top ministers ranked by overall preference, and party allegiance 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 Chris Fearne Ian Borg Evarist Bartolo Silvio Schembri Edward Scicluna 27.9% 30.8% 26.1% 11.0% 17.4% 5.6% 3.9% 0.3% 9.1% 3.6% 6.5% 0.0% 2.9% 5.1% 1.1% Overall PL PN Top ministers ranked by preference according to age demographic 18-35 36-50 51-65 65+ 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% 25.2% 11.8% 3.1% 3.2% 3.3% 29.9% 14.3% 3.7% 3.4% 31.3% 12.1% 7.2% 6.2% 3.5% 23.9% 3.8% 8.3% 4.7% 3.8% Chris Fearne Ian Borg Evarist Bartolo Silvio Schembri Edward Scicluna Byron Camilleri Jose Herrera Aaron Farrugia Owen Bonnici Top ministers according to highest showing in Interestingly, Bartolo's support is derived from Nationalist voters. He features second behind Fearne with 9.1% among PN voters and just scrapes through at the bottom of the list among PL voters.