When I come across the term “floating voter”, I immediately think of an intelligent person who does not vote with passion, but votes after examining carefully what the parties intend to implement if elected.
Now we have seen the Labour side offering an immediate 25 per cent reduction in electricity and water bills.
On the other hand, the Nationalist Party is offering the continuation of the smooth way it has been administering for over two decades.
The floating voters might remember Alfred Sant’s vow to remove VAT in 1996 – this was swallowed hook, line and sinker, and Labour was elected on the strength of this gimmick.
VAT could have been a valid reason for the floaters to go along; now, all those who heard Konrad Mizzi on Bondiplus and Joseph Muscat expounding the future of the generation of electricity, must have come to the conclusion that this is nothing more than a gimmick. I do not think there is any other way to define “the plan”.
There might be a good chunk of the voting population which thinks that we have had enough of the present government.
But, in all honesty is there a reliable gimmick-free alternative? Perhaps some floating voter could give us the answer.
↧