Discover the story of Malta’s 1961 Interdett, when Archbishop Gonzi clashed with Dom Mintoff’s Labour Party. Learn how the Church declared supporting Labour a mortal sin, its impact on Maltese society, and how the conflict shaped politics until reconciliation in 1969.

Malta’s political map was long shaped by geography, with Labour dominating the dockyard communities in the South and the PN entrenched in the Church-backed villages of the North. Today, shifting demographics and new migration patterns are testing those old frontiers