So there you have it. The power of incumbency did not work. The Nationalist Party’s totally negative campaign failed. The hate spread over the internet rebounded. The strategy mapped out by Labour leader Joseph Muscat, superimposed on disenchantment with the Nationalist government, and loss of credibility of the defeated leaders worked.
Beyond the celebrations lies the hard task of governing.
This is only the end of the beginning. The beginning, Muscat’s five years of leadership structured to change the Labour Party, the electoral strategy to try to rise above the usual political fray, worked.
He has much to celebrate. Not simply in personal terms, which is high enough, but also in his success to mobilise the Labour grassroots, made to forget all their yesterdays, and unite them with voters who, in the past, would not dream of voting Labour.
In retrospect, winning will seem to be the easy task, the completion of the Muscat beginning. Saturday and the resulting massive victory were the end of the beginning.
The demands of governing will now lay into the new Prime Minister with pressure like he has never experienced before.
His first task will be to put together a strong management...
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