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SUNDAY 7 JANUARY 2024 • ISSUE 1262 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY
Pilots and nurses
increased their
membership
numbers in 2023
PAGE 7
Study reveals
large fresh
water body
beneath Sicily
PAGE 9
Favourites
and hopefuls
for upcoming
elections
PAGES 12 & 13
Unions MEPs
Fossil water
L-Aqwa generation
maltatoday
FULL RESULTS ON PAGES 10 & 11
Artist and author
Ryan Falzon on
Labour's 'L-Aqwa
Zmien', his novel
Sajf and critics
INTERVIEW MT2
Snap reshuffle sees Abela
remove Aaron Farrugia, as
Fearne heads to Brussels
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Key findings:
• Roberta Metsola trusted by 22% of
Maltese electorate
• Metsola gets 3 on 5 rating as European
Parliament president
• Alex Agius Saliba is second most trusted
MEP by 17%
• 25% trust none of Malta's six MEPs
• 69% had no verdict on EU's response to
Gaza war
• Majority could not rate Ursula von der
Leyen and Charles Michel
Roberta Metsola is
most trusted MEP
MT SURVEY
Biggest winners: Chris Bonett,
promoted to minister; Malcom Paul
Agius Galea, Omar Farrugia and Glenn
Bedingfield, promoted to parliamentary
secretaries; Clint Camilleri, gains planning;
Jonathan Attard, gains construction reform
Biggest losers: Aaron Farrugia, axed
from Cabinet, Stefan Zrinzo Azzopardi
loses key portfolios in reduced ministry
PRIME Minister Robert Abela axed
Aaron Farrugia from his Cabinet in
a reshuffle that saw Chris Bonett be-
ing made minister and three back-
benchers promoted to parliamenta-
ry secretaries.
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KURT SANSONE & MARIANNA CALLEJA
