Do you remember when Alex Borg, the same amateur now vying to lead the Nationalist Party, publicly declared that Malta has too many restaurants? It wasn’t a slip of the tongue. It was a fully thought-out, arrogant statement made on 20 November 2024, when Borg claimed that “supply is significantly exceeding demand.”
Let that sink in.
At a time when Malta and Gozo’s restaurant industry was recovering from global shocks, inflation, and rising costs, Alex Borg chose to attack the very sector that keeps thousands of Maltese families afloat. According to him:
“Numbers never lie. Numbers show that Malta’s concentration of restaurants is far bigger than major cities like New York, London and Paris. We’re in a small country and we must strive towards quality.”
Is this the kind of political “vision” we should trust?
A politician who compares Malta to Manhattan and then calls for fewer businesses and more restrictions?
Borg didn’t stop there. With the classic know-it-all arrogance of someone who’s never run a business, served a plate, or paid a kitchen salary in his life, he continued:
“We need to ensure that regulations are in place… lawmakers are there to ensure policies are in place to make sure we reach the highest possible standards… we must also focus on distinctiveness.”
Translation: More red tape. More control. More closures.
This is not leadership. This is a bureaucrat in disguise — a politician who believes the solution to Malta’s vibrant hospitality sector is to strangle it with policies and limit growth. A man who views entrepreneurs not as innovators but as problems.
This is a wake-up call for every single restaurant owner in Malta and Gozo — no matter your political views.
Because it doesn’t matter if you vote red, blue, green, or abstain — if Alex Borg ever gains real political power, your business model is at risk. His “vision” is rooted in elitism, control, and a complete disconnect from the entrepreneurial reality of this country.
Alex Borg
Alex Borg sees the thriving restaurant scene — built by years of hard work, creativity, and risk — as too much. He doesn’t see opportunity. He sees excess. He doesn’t see jobs. He sees “oversupply.”
And that should terrify you.
Do you really want someone like this anywhere near policymaking? Do you want a Prime Minister who looks at your investment, your staff, your livelihood — and says, “There are too many of you”?
Alex Borg is not a reformer. He is not a visionary. He is a risk to private enterprise and a mouthpiece for restrictive politics that would rather shrink Malta’s economy than support it.
And if you run a restaurant in Malta or Gozo — he’s already told you exactly what he thinks of your future.
2 Comments
Yes. the Maltese interprunership, Yesterday I set down on a chair around a table complately obstructing the pavement at St. Paul’s square Rabat Malta, this table and about five others belong to the smallest of holes-in-the-wall imaginable so called resturants/cafee cult, Menu on table showed a burger can be ordered for E16. No chips of course, E16 is way above double normall prize for a burger with chips.
Prezzijiet esegarati bla-misthija ta xejn, serq sgaccat.