Watch: ‘Tat-Tkexkix’ – Delia Warns Foreigners Outnumber Maltese In Six Towns
Shadow Finance Minister Adrian Delia voiced concern at recent statistics which found that foreign nationals outnumber Maltese people in six towns.
“Back in 2012, 14.5% of the residents of Msida were foreign but it’s now up to 64%. In St Paul’s Bay, it’s gone up from 20% to 63%, in St Julian’s it’s gone up from 16% to 57%, in Pieta it’s gone up from 8% to 55%, and in Sliema it’s gone up from 18% to 55%,” Delia said in Parliament.
“These numbers are scary. Meanwhile, foreigners now make up over a third of the population of Ta’ Xbiex, Swieqi, Ħamrun, Mellieħa, Marsaskala, Marsa and Birżebbuġa.”
Delia added that nationwide, the percentage of foreign residents increased from 6.75% to 30% of the total population between 2012 and 2024.
However, he warned that Finance Minister Clyde Caruana only mentioned the word ‘population’ once in his Budget speech, and this in the context of “the need for new clinics to cater to the growing demand of a population that is living longer”.
“It’s not the growing population or the importation of foreigners that is concerning the minister, but the fact that the Maltese are living longer. How shameful.”