Delia's ‘New Way’ strategy fails on all fronts

Two years down the line from the election of Adrian Delia as Nationalist Party leader, the main opposition party has suffered an unparalleled loss at last Saturday’s polls, failing to deliver on all of the PN’s electoral targets.

An evaluation of the PN’s results shows that apart from an unprecedented all-time low in terms of popular support and percentages nationwide, the PN’s leadership also failed to reach any of its other targets – to retain the third seat and to send to Brussels Frank Psaila – the main Delia-backed candidate from the pack.
“It’s a complete failure,” a party insider close to the current Nationalist Party leadership commented.
“It is even worse than we were hoping for. We thought that Psaila – who we backed openly and provided him with so much publicity, would finally make it. The fact that our own voters chose to ignore us and again elect [Roberta] Metsola and [David] Casa is a complete catastrophe for the leadership,” he admitted.
Last Saturday’s result at the polls were the worst for any PN leader since the country joined the EU in 2004.
In the preceding three elections, the PN always managed to maintain its nationwide standing with around 40 per cent of...