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PL leads with 39,000 votes Jurors in the Maksar gang trial delivered guilty verdicts against four men but they also delivered the message that they believed the testimony of Vince Muscat and Melvin Theuma. VOTING INTENTIONS Momentum 3.1% | ADPD 1.6% | Others 2.2% Turnout: 80.3% TRUST Abela: 50% | Grech: 18.8% | None: 31.2 PL 53.3% 39.7% PN JAMES DEBONO jdebono@mediatoday.com.mt YOUR RIGHT TO KNOW WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT SUNDAY 8 JUNE 2025 • ISSUE 1335 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY Lara Dimitrijevic On On domestic violence domestic violence and the judiciary's and the judiciary's behaviour behaviour maltatoday Manoel Island PN wants NAO to review contract before parliamentary debate PAGE 4 INTERVIEW MT2 Planning appeals Legal review is ready but PA analysing whether courts can meet timeframes PAGE 9 €2.20 Guilty verdicts, a star witness and Chapter 3 PAGES 2-3 THE Labour Party has increased its lead over the Nationalist Party from 24,000 votes in April to nearly 39,000 now, Malta- Today's June survey shows. The PL now practically enjoys the same vote lead it enjoyed over the PN in the 2022 general election. The PL now scores an absolute majority of 53.3%, which is just 1.8 points lower than its election result. The PN is also scoring two points lower than its election per- formance. Compared to the general elec- tion, the third-party vote has increased from 3.2% to 7% but remains fragmented between Momentum, ADPD and an assortment of other parties. Labour's 14-point lead over the PN is the result of a mixture of declining PL non-voters, greater losses in the PN to third parties and a lower re- tention rate by the Opposition. The survey suggests that La- bour's strategy of wooing back its traditional voters has now paid off with party losses to ab- stention dropping to just 6.7% from over 21.6% in September 2024. The survey once again con- firms the unpopularity of PN Leader Bernard Grech, who now trails Robert Abela by a staggering 31 points, up from 27 points two months ago. FULL RESULTS PAGES 5-8 mt survey GOV. PERFORMANCE 3.1 out of 5