If you haven’t seen Jean Pierre Debono’s “explanation”, do so before you read this. He has written his denials, his excuses and his explanations such as they are and I published them in their entirety because fairness demands it. But here’s the thing. The credibility of Jean Pierre Debono’s ‘apology’ rests on the assumption that [...]
12:49 Adds Jean Pierre Debono's letter In a brief Net News post, the PN announced Jean Pierre Debono told Adrian Delia he will "not accept the Parliamentary seat that was assigned to him in a democratic process within the structures of the PN". Net News said they would provide further information at a later stage. [...]
It’s meltdown in the PN as all branches that are not in control of Jean Pierre Debono are lining up to disown his co-option to Parliament. Deputy Leader Robert Arrigo used very harsh terms to describe both Jean Pierre Debono and his wife Kristy Debono. “They are not sheep,” he wrote. “They’re wolves”. MPs and [...]
Two Gozitan voters have filed a judicial protest against the Nationalist Party calling on them not to co-opt Jean Pierre Debono to the Parliamentary seat vacated by David Stellini. The voters, Mariella Mercieca and Daniel Cilia, said in their letter that the vote on Saturday morning that chose Jean Pierre Debono over Gozitan candidate Kevin [...]
The thing that you have to keep in mind with the current crisis in the PN is just how unproductive it is. A crisis that yields results is painful but necessary. But what’s happening is as pointless as hair-gel on me. Consider that Joseph Muscat is not having to face criticism on a Council of [...]
The headline of Times of Malta’s report of Adrian Delia’s Fidel Castro-style radio-tirade of this morning says he — Adrian Delia — ‘blames the “establishment” for the ongoing chaos in the PN, and he warns his patience is running out. He was defending the party’s decision to co-opt Jean Pierre Debono to Parliament saying that [...]
This was sent in by a current member of the Executive Committee of the PN who was present at yesterday's meeting. On Saturday, Mark Anthony Sammut submitted his resignation from his post as President of the PN’s Executive Committee. His decision stems from the fact that none of those holding a leadership role within the [...]
Sent in by someone known to me. So, we’re back to square one. Adrian Delia’s party took a thrashing. The local council results are more representative of the true situation with Labour securing 58% of the votes (there wasn’t the vote-pulling power of the two MEPs). This was a direct message to Adrian Delia and his [...]
Even after all that’s happened the last two years, and all the noise of the past week, the outcome of the PN’s executive committee of today sounds like a loud gunshot. A flutter of wings, a few shocked gasps, followed by an eerie, knowing silence. The party locked itself in a room this morning to [...]
The author of this piece had sent in this commentary after the EP elections were out. This is Part 2 written after the final Local Council election results came in yesterday. The Local Council election results are just fresh off the press. The debacle suffered by the New Way last Sunday was confirmed even further in [...]
And at the end of long days and nights counting votes, it was time to get ready to go home. But before they left they had to give credit to the man who had made all their countless victories possible. “Delia! Delia!” They shouted. This is not a fantasy in my unfulfilled dreams of glory. [...]
The government goes to the Council of Europe with 50 amendments to a report that finds the rule of law in Malta is such a disastrous state that not only was it unable to protect the life of a critical journalist but it seems unable (or unwilling) to find and punish the culprits not to [...]
This is Alfred Grixti, a Labour Party activist of many years. He's seen here taken off a screen celebrating with his Labour mates some crushing electoral victory of the many they celebrated these last few days. And here's Alfred Grixti's Facebook sporting as a profile picture what Ranier Fsadni described as an Austin Powers touch [...]
Who needs friends? The editorial of l-orizzont once published a hit list of people it despised because of their real or perceived association with the interests of the Nationalist Party. It had said it had marked these people for elimination. Today they also target someone in the Nationalist Party but they seek their preservation. L-orizzont [...]
This photo was going around yesterday snapped off the screen showing PN lead factotum Pierre Portelli (the more important one) having some form of conversation with Konrad Mizzi. The reason people shared it is that they were uncomfortable with it. People who are angry that Konrad Mizzi persists to survive with impunity with so much [...]
Sent in by someone known to me. The article refers to a "Manuel Delia readership base". By publishing this article I do not mean to suggest I believe such a thing exists. But the author does, so there. Hope is the last to die. Or so says the optimistic. With all the events and negative [...]
It is rare for a former PN leader to dish out advice to his successor. They’ve been in the job themselves and they know that a meddling retiree is unhelpful, whatever their intentions. I don’t think Lawrence Gonzi’s comments to Times of Malta yesterday were necessarily meant to be helpful, at least from the point [...]
The counting of Local Council votes over three days is like Chinese torture for the PN. You have to admire those volunteers who go up to Naxxar every day. They’re like the Light Brigade, fully aware they are fodder for the roaring cannons. The way Local Council vote counting works gives those perspex-bashing Labour partisans [...]
I have just finished scouring through my customary news portals in the hope of finding something to cheer me up, giving me some hope that our republican system has still some life in it. Sadly, all I could find was news about the latest trashing of the PN in the local elections. This is surreal! [...]
Let’s get a few things straight, and the assorted columnists in today’s Times of Malta can put this in their assorted pipes and smoke it if they are so inclined. Yes, I voted ‘tactically’ for the “detestable” David Casa and for Roberta Metsola, as I said I would when I spoke at the monthly vigil [...]