Nationalist Party leader Adrian Delia obtained two-thirds approval in a vote taken today.
Delia has won the vote of confidence in the PN extraordinary general council, with 67.75% of the votes cast.
In total, 1,496 councillors were eligible to vote, and 1,380 cast their vote. That is a 92% voter turnout, according to the president of the Electoral Commission Francis Zammit Dimech.
Of the votes cast, there were 22 invalid votes. 920 councillors voted in favour of Delia remaining, while 438 voted against. This means that Delia won the vote with 67.75% of the vote in favour, and 32.25% of the councillors voted against him.
Voting has closed in a Nationalist Party extraordinary general meeting which is to decide the future of leader Adrian Delia.
The council started at 9.30am with speeches by representatives of the two factions – one supporting, one rejecting Delia – following which the voting began. Delia also spoke
Voting closed at 6pm. Delia is expected to address the general council shortly.
It was Delia himself, somewhat belatedly, who called for the vote after the group calling for his removal had presented a petition requesting the party to hold an extraordinary general council after the massive defeat in the latest MEP and local council elections.
Delia was elected to lead the party in September 2017 in what was the first ever party convention, which allowed all party paid-up members to elect the leader following a change of statute pushed by Delia’s predecessor Simon Busuttil.
