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LABOUR Party canvassers are expecting their party to win the general election with a substan- tial margin, leaving party strate- gists worried the overconfidence could backfire. With the first week of the elec- tion campaign over, for PL can- vassers and functionaries the discussion is not whether the party will win but by how much. This attitude was bolstered yesterday with the publication of Vincent Marmara's survey, which gave the PL an average advantage of around 28,000 votes. A canvasser for one of the min- isters, who spoke to MaltaToday on condition of anonymity to be able to speak frankly, said inter- nal polling was giving the PL a strong advantage. He was speak- ing to this newspaper before the Marmara survey was out. "We are well ahead," he said, adding that the cohort of unde- cided voters was not big enough to swing things around. Indeed, based on the numbers published yesterday by Marma- ra, even if all the 12.6% undecid- ed voters captured by the survey were to vote PN, a very unlikely possibility, the party would only manage 49.5%, giving it a very tight victory. CONTINUES ON PAGE 4 YOUR RIGHT TO KNOW WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT SUNDAY 3 MAY 2026 • ISSUE 1383 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY Planning reform Key pledges Energy and politics Energy Minister Miriam Dalli talks about energy stability and more Prime minister says new Labour government will only proceed with consensus We take a look at key pledges made in the first week by the political parties PAGES 2-3 €2.20 PAGES 6-9 maltatoday PL brims with confidence as PN's slow start fuels up Catacombs to be buried under block of flats in Qawra KURT SANSONE ksansone@mediatoday.com.mt Robert Abela and Alex Borg addressing their parties' respective events on Workers' Day (Photos: James Bianchi & Daniel Tihn/ MaltaToday) A Roman quarry and buri- al chamber discovered on a Qawra site will be preserved beneath a seven-storey devel- opment, the Superintendence for Cultural Heritage has con- firmed. The catacombs were discovered during an archae- ological investigation ordered by the SCH before the devel- opment was approved. Approved development plans show the Roman re- mains sandwiched between the flats and underlying ga- rages. The development con- sists of 48 apartments, 40 garages and a ground-floor shop. JAMES DEBONO jdebono@mediatoday.com.mt CONTINUES ON PAGE 13 INTERVIEW MT2