maltatoday | SUNDAY • 27 MARCH 2022
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Malta went to the polls yesterday
with polling stations opening at
7am until 10pm, uninterrupted.
Election day brought to an end
a short 33-day campaign with
well over 340,552 voters eligi-
ble to cast their votes.
The campaign was fought most-
ly between the Labour Party, led
by Prime Minister Robert Abela,
and the Nationalist Party, led
by Opposition leader Bernard
Grech.
Abela took over as PM after win-
ning a party leadership battle
with deputy prime minister Chris
Fearne, after the disgraced exit
of his predecessor, Joseph Mus-
cat, in the wake of the arrest of
magnate Yorgen Fenech.
Grech was himself the winner of
a party leadership contest with
predecessor Adrian Delia, who
suffered a backbench rebellion
in mid-2020.
Campaigning till
the end
