ADPD and Momentum to form an alliance before the next election
Such coalitions in the Maltese political scenario are not new but very rare
Two of Malta’s small parties, ADPD and Momentum, have agreed to join forces in a pre-electoral alliance.
Sandra Gauci, who chairs ADPD, the green party, has confirmed the party agreed to the alliance. It is now up to the two parties to agree on the details of their agreement.
Momentum general secretary Mark Camilleri Gambin said he had no comment on the matter, adding that any update would be communicated through official channels. However, he had told Times of Malta in February that Momentum was seeking an alliance with the Greens.
“In the year that we have been formed, we have managed to garner 2.3 per cent (MaltaToday January survey). At the same time, other third parties – particularly ADPD (the green party) – have a similar number,” Camilleri Gambin told Times of Malta on the sidelines of the party’s annual general meeting.
“That means that we need to have more dialogue between third parties. We believe this is the time for this dialogue to lead to us working together and creating an alliance to bring about needed change in Malta,” he said.
Pre-electoral alliances in Malta are not new, but they are rare.
In 2017, the Nationalist Party (PN) joined forces with the now-defunct Democratic Party (PD) to form Alleanza Nazzjonali (National Alliance) with a broad anti-corruption platform.
The coalition failed to prevent a Labour Party (PL) landslide that year, but the PD’s two leading members, Godfrey Farrugia and Marlene Farrugia, managed to get elected to parliament via the coalition.
Unlike that pre-electoral agreement, which included a large party in the form of the PN, the new ADPD-Momentum alliance involves two small parties, each consistently polling well below five per cent on a national scale.
ADPD was formed in late 2020 when Alternattiva Demokratika and Partit Demokratiku formally merged. It strives to promote green issues, laying stress on social justice, the environment and a sustainable future for the Maltese islands.
When Momentum was officially launched at the beginning of 2025, it described itself as a “centrist party” willing to collaborate with other parties having “similar values”.