The game is rigged: Bernard Grech on PN's poor poll results
The Nationalist Party continues to perform poorly in political surveys in part because the game is rigged to favour the incumbent Labour government, Nationalist Party leader Bernard Grech argued on Saturday. Poll numbers suggest that the PN is on track for a record electoral drubbing, with the most recent survey, released last week by Times of Malta, putting Labour 47,000 votes ahead of the PN. Speaking on Saturday, Grech downplayed the importance of such polls, arguing that they provided a snapshot of voters’ intentions at a given point in time and were not a plebiscite on the state of the PN. But he also argued that the PN was failing to resonate with voters because it was competing on uneven terms. He likened the situation to a corrupted football game, in which the referee, supporters and stadium announcer are all backing the other side. In Grech’s metaphor, public broadcaster PBS serves as the referee. “If the game is not fair, let us not fool ourselves into thinking that there will be any extraordinary progress. This is a government that is not allowing the game to be played as it should be,” he said. Grech made a similar point earlier this week, saying that the government...