Bad News For Adrian Delia: Labour Leadership Contenders Already Enjoy More Than Double PN Leader’s Trust Rating
Whether Chris Fearne or Robert Abela wins the Labour Party’s leadership election next month, one thing already appears certain – either candidate will start out way more popular than Opposition leader Adrian Delia.
MaltaToday’s latest survey makes for some worrying leader for the Nationalist Party, which doesn’t seem to have gained any traction whatsoever despite Malta’s political crisis and the impending resignation of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat.
Given a choice between Fearne and Delia, 60.6% of respondents opted for Fearne, a record rating for a leader in MaltaToday’s trust ratings, while a mere 17.8% opted for Delia.
Interestingly, Fearne isn’t only trusted by 96.3% of PL voters but by 14.8% of PN voters. Indeed, in this match-up, only 54.9% of PN voters declared they have more trust in Delia, with 14.8% stating they trust Fearne more, 17.2% stating they trust none of them and 13.1% saying they are unsure.
Fellow contender Robert Abela isn’t trusted a much, but is still trusted way more than the PN leader.
Given a choice between Abela and Delia, 49.3% of respondents opted for Abela, while 21.5% opted for Delia. Abela is trusted by 93.6% of PL voters and 8.6% of PN voters.
The gap between the two parties is reflected when respondents are asked for their voting intentions. Despite these turbulent times for the Labour Party, 43.1% of peope said they intend to vote for the PL at the next election, a decline of a mere percentage point since last month.
Contrarily, only 27.6% of people intend to cast their vote for the PN, an increase of less than a percentage point.
While 84.4% of PL voters said they intend to stick with the same party at the next election, this can only be said of 65.2% of PN voters. Also, while 2.1% of PN voters said they plan to switch to Labour at the next election, only 0.6% of PL voters said they plan to switch to PN.
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