31 Aug 2012
Political parties are not above the law. Every member of every club, be it a band club, a football club or a politicla party has rights which the club must respect. What the PN executive committee is asked to decide at this stage is wheter the rules of Natural justice have been observed or not, without [...]
31 Aug 2012
Minkejja li inkiteb hafna dwar x’nilbes, kif nimxi, ir-rizultati tal-Form IIC u materji trivjali ohra, dan ikun qed isir minn dawn il-persuni ghal skop ta propaganda u sabiex jiddevjawlek l-attenzjoni mill-kontribut vera tieghi lejn pajjizi f’dawn l-ahhar snin. Ovvjament din l-propaganda xi minn daqqiet ma tkunx qed issir ghax dik il-persuna tkun thobb il-Partit, minkejja [...]
30 Aug 2012
Stop and think. Does this government use the stick for four and a half years and the carrot for the last six months? You are just a guinea pig? You have no rights, but just a vote, the vote. So that Edgar Galea Curmi can stay in Castille forever, having migrated there from Louis Galea’s [...]
21 Aug 2012
Unfortunately, as someone has told me these days : If Mintoff could in some ways be associated with physical violence, Lawrence ‘DCG’ Gonzi’s name could go down in history tainted with the systematic moral violence which was used to quash dissent against him Raphael Vassallo is one of the first to write in the independent media [...]
18 Aug 2012
PN statute and condemnations breach the law http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=149419 http://www.kullhadd.com/201208184341/Ahbarijiet/il-kundanna-tal-ezekuttiv-tal-pn-fuq-franco-debono-hija-illegali.html A party which has treated me unjustly and breached the law in my regards will now ak for my support? * * * Accountability and Corruption : next election’s battlefields A footballer of the Maltese national team has been found guilty of match fixing by [...]
14 Aug 2012
The fact that political parties in Malta are the most unregulated bodies at Maltese Law puts them almost above the law. This situation is not only greatly detrimental to democracy but is in stark contrast to the situation in all other European countries. In Germany the Political Parties Act lays down the minimum requirements a [...]
13 Aug 2012
If one were to summarise the salient issues of our political scene in the past months, which ultimately degenerated in a split within the Nationalist Party which lost its majority in parliament and is now a coalition government, he would ask the following five simple questions : Should the strong pair of hands been used to [...]
13 Aug 2012
In Malta there are two kinds of election candidates, those who are fielded because, even if they have no clue or just a small idea about politics, attract votes and the other kind of candidate who can really contribute to the political life of this country and push for more needed change. Hence Peregin’s subtle [...]
12 Aug 2012
Ovvjament kull persuna jista jkollha agenda inkluz gazzetta, li wkoll jista’ jkollha agenda f’dak li tirraporta jew fil-mod kif tirraporta. Anke gurnalist individwali jista jkun ikollu agenda li mhux necessarjament tkun l-agenda tal-gurnal. Fil-kuntest tal-istorja li dehret illum fl-ewwel pagna tas-Sunday Times u peress illi forsi l-gurnalist awtur tal-istorja, Ivan Camilleri, kien Brussel jew bnadi ohra [...]
10 Aug 2012
The political history of the last two hundred years in Europe is the story of restoring power from the monarchies to the people, a movement from arbitrary unfetterd power to the rule of law. The battlecry of the French Revolution : liberty , fraternity, equality has been the fertile soil on which European democarcies have [...]
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