58% of Maltese trust the government

58% of Maltese said that they trust the government, according to statistics released alongside a Eurobarometer survey, which is a 5% decrease over the last Eurobarometer released in 2018.

26% of the Maltese respondents said that they tend not to trust the government.

When comparing these statistics to the EU average, there is more trust in the Maltese government by the Maltese than other country nationals have in their own respective governments.

34% of EU nationals tend to trust their respective country’s government on average.

In addition, more Maltese trust the government than Parliament (where 53% of Maltese respondents said that they ‘tend to rust’).

When compared to the EU average ( where on average 34% of respondents said that they tend to trust their national Parliament), Malta ranks higher.

57% of EU citizens tend not to trust the media, while 39% tend to trust it.

In terms of Malta, 64% tend not to trust the media while 24% do. The rest responded ‘do not know’.

While only 19% of EU citizens tend to trust political parties and 77% do not (in terms of the EU average), 33% of Maltese citizens tend to trust such parties while 55% do not. The rest did not give a reply either way.

In terms of Malta’s justice system, 48% trust it while 40% do not.

This is a lower trust rating than other EU nationals in their own countries, where the average saw 52% trust their national justice systems.

In terms of trust in the police force, while a strong 72% of EU nationals, on average, trust the police, this number drops to 65% in Malta.

A very high percentage of the Maltese correspondents said that they trust the public administration ( 65%), while 24% they tend not to trust it.

In contrast, the EU average saw 51% of respondents say that they trust the public administration in their respective countries.