It is an unfortunate fact that Malta is a country that is greatly representative of squandered potential. Malta has a lot of latent potential - but thus-far squandered potential - and the truth is that both the mainstream parties (MLP and PN) are responsible to some degree or another. In spite of this fact they remain the two main forces in the political scene with other entities holding no candle to them in terms of public support.

As the Maltese general elections approach and the electoral campaigns intensify so too does my awareness of the importance of these coming elections become more acute. Indeed up to several months ago I hadn’t been banking on participating in these elections, believing that the natural thing to do would be to launch myself ‘after’ the elections… but I have since recognised that to abstain from entry with the knowledge that my perspective has granted me would be an act of irresponsibility on my part.

As many would know, the population of the Maltese Islands are bi-lingual, being relatively proficient in both the Maltese and English languages, with a significant part of the population also fluent in Italian.

It comes as little surprise that this rather multi-lingual culture was the fruit of significant disagreement, ironically stemming from the question as to whether English or Italian ought to become the national language. This was at a time when Malta was emerging from British colonial rule. The working classes were more fluent in English while the middle classes tended more towards Italian. From this background the Islands developed its multi-lingual stance.