Malta will go to the polls on the 8th of March. In the current parliament the right-wing Nationalist Party and an affiliated independent hold 35 out of 69 seats. The social-democratic opposition Labour Party (which, paradoxically, appears to be more 'nationalist' than the government) holds 34 seats. Malta is virtually a perfect 2-party system, and elections seem habitually to be decided by just a couple of thousands of votes out of an electorate of about 300,000.
It's been since 2008 that Malta held a General Election, but this one is still brought about by the government losing a budget vote. Polls seem quite untrustworthy to me, but they all seem to agree that the Labour Party (PL) is well ahead of the Nationalist Party. Labour's been in opposition since 1998.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltese_general_election,_2013
