{"id":834915,"date":"2026-05-31T16:14:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T16:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/834915\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T16:14:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T16:14:23","slug":"maltas-prime-minister-declares-historic-victory-in-snap-election-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/834915\/","title":{"rendered":"Malta\u2019s prime minister declares historic victory in snap election \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Abela called a snap election in April, four years into his five-year term, amid fears the war in Iran and the ensuing economic shock could erode support for his government.<\/p>\n

Alex Borg, leader of the opposition Nationalists Party, appeared to concede defeat on Sunday, saying the outcome was \u201cnot the result we wanted, but it\u2019s a very clear message<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Abela\u2019s victory was widely expected<\/a>, with polling ahead of Saturday\u2019s vote showing his Labour Party on top. Still, the Labour Party\u2019s majority appeared to be considerably smaller than its last victory in 2022, with around 18,000 votes separating the government from the opposition.<\/p>\n

The election was fiercely fought and drew some surprise interventions<\/a> from Brussels, with Malta\u2019s EU Commissioner Glenn Micallef, who was Abela\u2019s chief of staff, controversially endorsing the prime minister in a campaign speech, and European Parliament President Roberta Metsola appearing at campaign stops alongside Borg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Abela called a snap election in April, four years into his five-year term, amid fears the war in…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":834916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[90,102001,22200,137866,472,56354,50,253954,11023,103],"class_list":["post-834915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-elections","tag-elections-in-europe","tag-european-politics","tag-glenn-micallef","tag-history","tag-malta","tag-news","tag-roberta-metsola","tag-war-in-iran","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116670081825207189","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}