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THE ALL-NEW B10 STARTING FROM €20,900* (*2025 GOVERNMENT GRANTS AND SCRAPPAGE SCHEME INCLUDED. TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY). mt SURVEY SUNDAY • 1 FEBRUARY 2026 | maltatoday among tertiary educated vot- ers (5.3) and scores high (5.93) among the post-secondary ed- ucated. Jo Etienne Abela: Mean score 5.48 Despite a 0.6 drop in his rat- ings Health Minister Jo Etienne Abela has climbed from fourth to second place in the Cabinet rankings. But he falls to third place among Labour voters and non-voters among which he scores lower than Envi- ronment Minister Miriam Dalli. The health minister is al- so boosted by a particularly high score among Gozitan respond- ents (6.6). In this region, he comes a close second to Clyde Caruana (6.76). In Gozo, he also fares better than fellow compa- triots Clint Camilleri (6.35) and Anton Refalo (6.11). Abela is al- so slightly better rated by wom- en (5.58) than males (5.41). Miriam Dalli: Mean score 5.41 With a score of 5.4, Environ- ment and Energy Minister Miri- am Dalli has climbed from sixth place last year to third place in this survey. Significantly, with a score of 7.48 she also emerges as the second-best rated minis- ter among Labour voters after Caruana. Despite her improved ranking, Dalli has lost 0.43 points during the past year. She is significantly more popular in the South-eastern region (6.41), where she is the third most popular minister. Dalli is rated better by women (5.53) than by men (5.32). Ian Borg: Mean score 5.38 With a score of 5.38, Depu- ty Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ian Borg has slipped from 2nd to joint 4th with Social Policy Minister Michael Falzon. Compared to last year, Borg also registers a 0.8-point drop in his score. He has also lost his top ranking among Labour voters— his score has dropped from 8.22 last year to 7.27 in his cohort. Borg receives a rating of 5.35 from men and 5.42 from wom- en. Michael Falzon: Mean score 5.38 Veteran politician and Cabinet mainstay Michael Falzon has slipped from third to fourth place in the rankings, registering a de- crease of 0.8 points in his overall score. But the so- cial policy minister emerg- es as the second top-rated min- ister among current non-voters (4.68), among which he is only surpassed by Clyde Caruana. Surprisingly, Falzon gets his highest rating in Gozo (6.49) where he is the third most popu- lar minister after Clyde Caruana and Jo Etienne Abela. THE MIDDLE TIER Byron Camilleri: Mean score 5.12 Compared to last year, Home Affairs Minister Byron Camill- eri, whose portfolio includes the regulation of foreign workers, has climbed from 10th to 5th place despite a 0.42-point dip in his rating. His low rating among PN voters (3.1) contrasts with a modest rating among non-vot- ers (4.6) and a substantially higher rating among PL voters (7.23). Camilleri is also given a substantially higher rating by women (5.29) than men (4.98). Clifton Grima: Mean score 5.11 The education minister re- mains in the survey's middle tier with a score of 5.11 despite a loss of 0.9 points over last year. Gri- ma has also slipped from 5th to 6th place, even if the difference between Grima and Camilleri is too close to be statistically signif- icant. On a regional level, Grima gets his best score (6.24) in the South-eastern region. He is also given a better rating by women (5.21) than men (5.03). Silvio Schembri: Mean score 5.03 Economy Minister Silvio Schembri scrapes the pass mark with a 5.03 score and ranks 7th as was the case last year. Schem- bri, whose overall score has de- clined by 0.68 points is penalised by a relatively low score among PN voters (3.03) and non-vot- ers (3.66) but performs better Male Female PN Voters 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 Non-voters PL Voters 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 PN Voters Non-voters PL Voters Byron Camilleri: 5.12 Overall Male Female Male Female 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 PN Voters Non-voters PL Voters Clifton Grima: 5.11 Overall 0 10 0 10 Male Female 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 PN Voters Non-voters PL Voters Silvio Schembri: 5.03 Overall < CONTINUES FROM PREVIOUS PAGE Male Female PN Voters 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 Non-voters PL Voters 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 PN Voters Non-voters PL Voters Byron Camilleri: 5.12 Overall Male Female Male Female 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 PN Voters Non-voters PL Voters Clifton Grima: 5.11 Overall 0 10 0 10 Male Female 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 PN Voters Non-voters PL Voters Silvio Schembri: 5.03 Overall Jo Etienne Abela places second and Miriam