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The 2024 European Parliament election will be held in Malta on 8 June 2024 in tandem with local elections. [1] It will be the fifth election to the European Parliament. Malta will elect 6 of the 720 Members of the European Parliament. [2] EU citizens aged 16 and over are entitled to vote, provided they have registered to do so. [1] Six different political parties have announced their participation, only 2 of these won seats in the last election these being the Labour Party and the Nationalist Party, with 4 and 2 seats respectively. [3]
Party | European Party | Outgoing delegation | ||||
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Labour Party | Incumbent MEPs: | PES | 4 | S&D | ||
Alfred Sant | ||||||
Josianne Cutajar | ||||||
Alex Agius Saliba | ||||||
Cyrus Engerer | ||||||
Nationalist Party | Incumbent MEPs: | EPP | 2 | EPP | ||
Roberta Metsola | ||||||
David Casa |
MEP | Party | |
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Alfred Sant [4] | Labour |
The below parties and/or independent candidates have declared their participation in the upcoming European Parliament elections in order of candidate quantity as of 14 April 2024: [5]
Party | European Party | Quantity | Names | |||
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Labour Party | PES | 9 |
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Nationalist Party | EPP | 8 [6] |
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AD+PD | EGP | 4 [7] [8] |
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Imperium Europa | – | 2 |
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ABBA [10] | ECPM | 2 |
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Volt Malta | Volt | 1 [11] [12] |
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Independent candidates or non-registered parties | Various or None |
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The People's Party has not yet put forward any candidates yet and may not participate in the election at this stage.
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ABBA started its campaign with two events organised in conjunction with the European Christian Political Movement party on 6 April 2024 in a Qawra hotel on 'Reclaiming the power for the member states'. Two pairs of individual speakers addressed the two consecutive events which revolved around 'Sovereignty and Healthcare' and 'Education and Foreign Policy'. Romanian MEP Cristian Terheș and party leader Ivan Grech Mintoff addressed the first meeting, with Valeriu Ghilețchi and lawyer and broadcaster Emmanuel 'Emmy' Bezzina addressed the second meeting. [19]
Volt's campaign began with the adoption of their joint European election programme November 2023 in Paris, which the party shares with all other parties from Volt Europa. [20] On 1 February 2024, Volt announced its Vice President Matthias Iannis Portelli as its first candidate for the European elections. [21]
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MEPs are elected from a nationwide six-seat constituency by single transferable vote. [22] Candidates who pass the Hagenbach-Bischoff quota in the first round are elected, and any surplus votes transferred to the remaining candidates, who will be elected if this enables them to pass the quota. [22] The lowest ranked candidates are then eliminated one-by-one with their preferences transferred to other candidates, who are elected as they pass the quotient, until all six seats are filled.
It is not uncommon for smaller parties to be grouped together in polls, or totally excluded by Maltese media houses, who typically align with government or opposition. Where it comes to the third parties and independents, they have always outperformed opinion polling.
Dates Conducted | Polling firm | Sample size | PL | ABBA | IND/ Others | Lead | Not voting [lower-alpha 3] | Don't know/ Invalid [lower-alpha 3] | ||||
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7 March - 21 March 2024 | MaltaToday | 657 | 52.8 | 42.6 | 4.6 | 10.2 | 23.4 | – | ||||
27 Feb –12 Mar 2024 | Esprimi/Times of Malta | 600 | 52.4 | 39.3 | 8.3 | 13.1 | 33 | |||||
26 Jan –05 Feb 2024 | MaltaToday | 647 | 47.9 | 41.0 | 11.1 | 6.9 | 37.5 | |||||
26 Mar 2022 | 2022 Maltese general election | – | 55.1 | 41.7 | n/a | 1.6 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 13.4 | 24.4 | 2.9 |
25 May 2019 | 2019 European Parliament election in Malta | – | 54.3 | 37.9 | 3.17 | 2.7 [lower-alpha 1] | 0.5 [lower-alpha 2] | n/a | 1.2 | 16.4 | 27.3 | 2.6 |
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Bartolo b'hekk jingħaqad mal-MEPs Roberta Metsola u David Casa, kif ukoll ma' David Agius, Peter Agius, Miriana Calleja Testaferrata de Noto, Norma Camilleri u LouiseAnne Pulis, li kienu approvati bħala kandidati matul l-aħħar xhur.[Bartolo thus joins MEPs Roberta Metsola and David Casa, as well as David Agius, Peter Agius, Miriana Calleja Testaferrata de Noto, Norma Camilleri and LouiseAnne Pulis, who were approved as candidates during the last months.]
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