The outgoing Prime Minister in Malta, candidate of the Labor Party, claimed victory in the legislative elections on Sunday after a ballot held in the shadow of the war in Ukraine and marked by a record abstention in the history of the small archipelago. Mediterranean.
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As announced by the polls, Robert Abela indicated to the TVM television channel that his party had won the majority of the votes, without however providing a numerical result.
While the participation rate usually exceeds 90%, it should settle around 85%, a historically low level since the independence in 1964 of Malta, a former British colony which entered the EU in 2004.