PN casual elections to take place on Tuesday

The Nationalist Party’s casual elections are set to take place on Tuesday morning.

In a casual election, unelected candidates vying for the vacancy start from zero, irrespective of how many votes they would have obtained on the first count.

According to the PN’s statute, in the case of dual candidacies, the elected MP will have to give up the one with the least votes as a percentage of the district quota.

Interestingly, if the PN elects just one woman through the casual elections, the gender mechanism might not be required to elect the maximum 12 female MPs.

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The Electoral Commission received 42 nominations for the seven seats vacated by Alex Borg, Adrian Delia, Rebekah Borg, Stephen Spiteri, Mark Anthony Falzon, Conrad Borg Manche and Joe Giglio.

Casual elections will be held on the 3, 5, 7, 10 and 12 districts. There will be two casual elections each on the 7 and 10 districts after Adrian Delia and Rebekah Borg both ceded their seat on the 7 District and Joe Giglio and Mark Anthony Sammut gave up their seat on the 10 District.

List of nominations 

3 District (seat vacated by Stephen Spiteri)

Andrew Agius, Errol Cutajar, John Baptist Camilleri, Ray Gatt, Leone Sciberras

5 District (seat vacated by Conrad Borg Manche)

Duncan Borg Myatt, Stefan Caruana, Oliver Cini, Owen Sciberras, Stanley Zammit

7 District (seat vacated by Adrian Delia)

Andrew Agius, Charles Azzopardi, Paul Mazzola, Ian Vassallo Hagi

7 District (seat vacated by Rebekah Borg)

Andrew Agius, Charles Azzopardi, Paul Mazzola, Ian Vassallo Hagi

10 District (seat vacated by Mark Anthony Sammut)

Joe Aquilina, Graziella Attard Previ, Graham Bencini, David Bonello, Albert Buttigieg, Errol Cutajar, Ray Gatt, Marilena Gauci, Noel Muscat

10 District (seat vacated by Joe Giglio)

Joe Aquilina, Graziella Attard Previ, Graham Bencini, David Bonello, Albert Buttigieg, Errol Cutajar, Ray Gatt, Marilena Gauci, Noel Muscat

12 District (seat vacated by Alex Borg)

Charles Azzopardi, David Bonello, Joe Grech, Jonathan Muscat, Ian Vassallo Hagi, George Vital Zammit