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TRUTH IS OF NO COLOUR WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT/COVID19 SUNDAY • 9 MAY 2021 • ISSUE 1123 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY maltatoday Get 50% off your first year of home insurance Up to €250 voucher towards your notary fees Up to 35% discounts from leading furniture outlets Much, much more... DISCOVER OUR FIRST-TIME BUYERS PROGRAMME franksalt.com.mt/firsttimebuyers TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY PAGE 2 €1.95 AFTER COVID, SUMMER SCHOOL? GLEN VELLA Eurovision's star tells all in our weekly Q&A 3 Foreign front Delia 'in tears of joy' and Azzopardi given short shrift by Grech: how the PN's discord was mismanaged EVARIST BARTOLO talks Malta abroad and Labour at home INTERVIEW MT2 2 Casino high-rollers An FIAU report from the belly of the beast PG8 PG 10 KURT SANSONE BERNARD Grech has to hit the panic but- ton as his trust rating and the party's for- tunes take a battering in the MaltaToday survey released today. The PN leader's trust rating drops by 10 points and now stands at 25.7%, his worst result since taking the reins of the party last September. The PN suffers a six-point drop with sup- port running at 30%, the same as it was last October when the first survey with Grech as leader was held. On the flip side, Robert Abela's trust rat- ing increases by more than two points to reach 49.6%, his highest since September. Support for the PL now stands at 44.8%, an increase of three points since last month. The gap between the parties now stands at 39,000 votes as the PN continues to lose more voters to Labour and fails to attract the young vote. The survey was held between Monday 3 May and Friday 7 May. Grech's trust crashes, PL ahead by 39,000 votes MaltaToday Survey Bernard Grech's fortunes change with COVID-19 FULL SURVEY PGS 10-11 PAUL COCKS A mawkish audio re- cording from Adrian Delia was sent out to well-wishers on Thursday evening on WhatsApp. In it, the former PN leader sent out a teary 'thank you' in a voice broken by emotion: "Thank you to those who kept be- lieving in me, when everything was stacked against me. I can lose 1,000 elections but truth will always out, but I will never lose my in- tegrity." Delia had emerged triumphant from a 'showdown' in which PN leader Bernard Grech forced Nation- alist MP Jason Azzo- pardi to back down on his long-held claims against the for- mer party leader. INSIDE THE PN A bad week for Bernard Grech: survey polls indicate his fortunes have been directly related to Robert Abela's COVID-19 mishaps