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€1.40 Newspaper post Sex therapist Maria Ali 'Boys will not always be boys' 14-15 YOUR FIRST READ AND FIRST CLICK OF THE DAY WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT SUNDAY • 12 APRIL 2015 • ISSUE 805 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY maltatoday YES!!! Tell Balzan Rolling coverage of the 2015 referendum on spring hunting on MaltaToday.com.mt Follow the referendum live INSIDE • JAMES DEBONO'S POLLING AND REFERENDUM ANALYSIS PAGES 6-9 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY Rolling coverage of the 2015 referendum on spring Follow the referendum live High turnout in hunters' districts Hunting country, rural areas, Labour strongholds deliver high turnouts in first positive sign for hunting lobby • Pressure from pro-hunting street-leaders reported to Commissioner of Police • First results from Naxxar counting complex expected before noon Sunday MALTA and Gozo yesterday came out to vote for a historic referendum to decide on whether to abrogate the government's derogation from the EU's spring hunting ban, in a battle between conservationists and 'tradi- tionalists' that will be decided today. The official voter turnout was 75%, a higher turnout than in the 2011 divorce referendum of 72%, with marked increases in 'hunter districts' like the thirteenth Gozo district, and the Labour strongholds of the fifth, sixth, and seventh districts. Urban heartlands and harbour dis- tricts in the first, second and third dis- tricts registered reductions of three, two, and four percentage points over 2011. The eighth and tenth districts registered a drop of one percentage point both, while turnout was un- changed over 2011 in the ninth and twelfth district. Also yesterday, voting took place in 34 local councils, most of them Labour-led councils, which served as a gauge of the national interest in the spring hunting referendum. Districts like the 'blue' tenth, which includes Sliema, saw a turnout of 70%, a drop of one point over 2011, suggesting that voters with no coun- cil to vote for still made the effort to vote in the referendum. President Marie Louise Coleiro Preca, Prime Minister Joseph Mus- cat, Opposition leader Simon Busut- til, Alternattiva Demokratika chair- person Arnold Cassola and SHout spokeswoman Moira Delia cast their vote on Saturday morning. No media invitation was issued to cover any of the Yes spokes- persons as they cast their votes. PAGES 3-4