Youngest since Independence
Joseph Muscat at home with his parents yesterday. Photo: Jason Borg
He secured the largest electoral victory in half a century but yesterday Joseph Muscat wrote history in more ways than one, becoming the youngest Prime Minister since Independence.
Dr Muscat, 39, was elected Labour leader in June 2008, succeeding Alfred Sant after the party had suffered its third successive electoral defeat. He was sworn in as Opposition leader in October of the same year after Joseph Cuschieri gave up his seat in Parliament.
Dr Muscat took the reins of a party fraught with internal strife and at its lowest ebb after the premature end of a Labour government...
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