In the early elections held in Malta on Saturday 3 June, the Maltese voters re-elected the outgoing Prime Minister, Joseph Muscat, by a comfortable majority. The Labour party won 55% of votes cast, which is expected to give him a majority of around nine seats at the national Parliament. It is clear that the electorate has opted to continue on the same path, Muscat said.
Muscat had been caught up in the Panama Papers scandal, in which his head of cabinet and his wife were both cited. In the...