PN members alleged that foreigners voted in the last general election.
Chris Cilia
After the general election of 30 May 2026, PN MEP Peter Agius published a video saying he had received "hundreds of messages" from people worried about how many people had voted. He said he was not an expert, but questioned how foreigners obtain Maltese citizenship and, with it, the vote. He noted that naturalisation is at the home affairs minister's discretion and hard to challenge, and called for a more detailed discussion. He later defended the video. Agius framed it as a question rather than an allegation, and naturalised citizens are Maltese citizens entitled to vote.How we reached this verdict ↓
Editorial note
How we assessed this claim
We read "PN members" as people in the party speaking for themselves, not the party's official position. We read "alleged foreigners voted" as casting doubt on whether people of foreign origin should have had a vote.
Mostly true, because a PN MEP publicly did that soon after the election. The detail that falls short is that Agius raised it as a question about naturalisation, not as a direct claim that ineligible people voted.
Limitations
- We found one PN member, Peter Agius, making this point. We could neither confirm nor rule out that others did the same elsewhere.
- We worked from news reports of the video and of Agius's later defence. We did not view the original video.