PRESS RELEASE BY THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION General Election – 30th May 2026

Certificates for persons who are unable to wait in the queue

1.       The Electoral Commission notifies that on the day of the poll, persons who are over 75 years and stretcher cases from hospitals and other Old People’s institutions shall be allowed to avoid queuing at all times during the poll without the need for a medical certificate. 

2.         Persons aged between 60 and 75 years old will be given priority in the queue from 1.00 pm to 5.00 pm 

3.         All other persons who are sick and unable to wait in the queue must present a medical certificate in order to avoid the queue, and this facility would be permitted after 1.00 pm.  Persons presenting the EU Disability Card issued by Aġenzija Appoġġ would be granted the same facility without the need for a medical certificate. 

4.         The Electoral Commission shall receive applications at its Office at the ex-Trade Fair Grounds, Naxxar, from medical officers who are not contesting the General Election, for the issue of official forms which serve as a medical certificate so that sick persons shall be allowed to pass the queue during the poll within the hours specified above.  

Every medical officer who applies shall be given an amount of forms on which the medical certificate is to be issued, and the number of these forms may be increased as necessary.