Thankfully, the spring hunting season has been closed after yet another bird was shot. The latest bird shot fell in St Edwards College’s yard in Cottonera, still bleeding, during school break.
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Category Archives: Malta Elections / Referendums
Local Council 2015 Results
Today Saturday the local council votes were counted and results were announced by the DOI. Malta voted last Saturday in a Spring Hunting Referendum and Local Councils elections for a number of localities.
The PM announced a PL (Labour Party) win of 54% (as opposed to 57% of four years ago) while PN (Nationalist Party) reduced the gap from 17% to 9%.
AD (Alternattiva Demokratika) was satisfied with its slight increase in votes in four localities and may retain its mayor in Attard.
Counting in Dingli concluded after a vote mixup was solved.
Overall counting still proceeds.
Detailed count results can be found at:
Another Illegal Bird Shooting..
Another hunter has been accused of illegally shooting a protected bird, a lapwing, this morning between Birzebbuga and Hal Far.
This Spring Hunting season opened after a referendum on spring hunting decided that hunting in spring should be allowed.
Yesterday a hunter shot a protected cuckoo in Manikata and a Twitter storm ensued. He was fined 2500 euros in court and had his hunting license suspended for three and a half years.
Twitterstorm enrages after first bird killed this Spring Hunting Season
Techopedia defines a Twitterstorm as being
“often started by a single person who sends his or her followers a message often related to breaking news or a controversial debate. Using a certain and often original hashtag, the tweet quickly spreads as people are notified of the message and then reuse the hashtag with subsequent retweets and tweets.”
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