Grace Borg to contest elections on PL ticket

Entrepreneur Grace Borg, a former chairman of the Maltasong Board, has confirmed her intention to stand as candidate in the general elections on the Labour ticket.

Borg told MaltaToday: "I would like to contest the election on the 2^nd and 10^th electoral districts because I am a woman from the south," she said referring to the second district. "I was born and bred in the south and would like to give my contribution to the people of the south."

Grace Borg was born in Xghajra and was brought up in Bormla and Zabbar. She runs a successful business in Sliema and is well known in the locality. In 2005 Borg resigned from her post on the Maltasong Board after clashing with then Minister and current PN backbencher Francis Zammit Dimech. 

Asked why she chose to run on the Labour ticket she said, "I have always been a Nationalist, but I have always thought that I should join the team which is on the right track. Right now Labour is on the right track."

Borg said that she was approached by Labour to stand for elections. Her intention to contest elections confirms reports that Labour intends to flood strategic districts with a large number of candidates, such as the second district, in order to garner every possible vote.