Corriere della Sera is running a photograph of Anglu Farrugia speaking on his phone when about to meet the Pope. And Michelle Muscat pushed herself in as “Mrs Farrugia”.

Published: April 27, 2014 at 1:33pm

ANGLU FARRUGIA POPE PHONE

The Italian national newspaper Corriera della Sera is running this photograph which shows Malta’s Speaker of the House, Anglu Farrugia, speaking on his phone as he lines up just behind Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, and Herman van Rompuy, president of the European Council, to meet Pope Francis.

Mrs Muscat is standing immediately at his elbow.

Fortunately, the journalists at Corriera della Sera have not been able to identify either our Speaker or our prime minister’s wife.

Because heads of government cannot be represented by their spouses, but by a deputy from that same government (generally the deputy PM or the foreign minister), Mrs Muscat would not have been permitted entry as the representative of the Malta government.

She gained access by passing herself off as “Mrs Farrugia” – the wife of the Speaker of the House – and was overheard by others who were present.

Mrs Muscat is accompanied on the jaunt by a personal friend called Maria Grech, who is staying with her as part of the Malta delegation in suites booked by the Office of the Prime Minister at the Hotel Palazzo Montemartini.




83 Comments Comment

  1. haha says:

    No wonder then that on a live feed of a foreign channel he was not shown. We were having lunch and the tv was on and somebody said ‘look there is Anglu Farrugia next’.

    Then suddenly the shot changed to the people in the crowd and a flag and when the shot returned to the Pope and his guests, Anglu Farrugia and Michelle Muscat had passed.

    We spent a few minutes laughing at how they will not have a souvenir video but what the hack….they can still brag that they went.

  2. Joe Micallef says:

    It all explains the fact that the person singing Pajjiz tal- Mickey Mouse found his true home.

    It’s evidence that in the long run birds of a feather flock together.

  3. Gobsmacked says:

    “Imnalla dal-Papa qed jiltaqa’ mal-pogguti Ang, ghax nistghu inbellghawielu li qeghdin flimkien. Hahaha.” (just imagine one of Mrs Muscat’s typically fatuous laughs there).

  4. just me says:

    I am really disappointed that no representative of the Malta government was present.

    Saint Pope John Paul ll came to small, insignificant Malta twice. No other pope had set foot on our tiny island before. And this is our way of showing our gratitude, by not even being present at his canonisation.

    And Michelle Muscat’s behaviour is really unbelievable.

    She had met the pope together with her husband. The Pope probably recognised her and must have been really baffled.

  5. Jozef says:

    This is beyond a joke.

    If Michelle Muscat passed herself off as someone else she basically broke all protocol and security clearance procedures.

    It’s official, they just couldn’t face the telling off.

  6. matt says:

    Kemm hu pastaz.

  7. Libertas says:

    Should have sent Cyrus Engerer.

  8. Slimiz says:

    What utter, total chavs. This hamalla owes the taxpayer a lot of money.

  9. Alexander Ball says:

    Bit of an odd place to take a bird for a dirty weekend.

  10. cerimoniale says:

    After he had, presumably, presented himself, Mr. Speaker gestured with his thumb towards Mrs. Muscat, presumably to present her to the Supreme Pontiff.

    Are official representatives not given some rudimentary instruction on protocol?

    One cannot go to such formal occasions as diplomatic representative and just improvise but should rehearse what to do and say.

  11. Freedom5 says:

    So THIS is the big news Joseph Muscat said he would be announcing. Meshall Peron is the new Mrs Farrugia, unless it’s a ménage a trois – and the civil union bill is to be amended accordingly.

  12. Maria says:

    Daphne, thank you so much for keeping us informed. You are the only journalist capable of really saying what needs to be said.

    I was watching TV and saw Anglu Farrugia speaking on his cell phone.

    RAI must have been sabotaged by the PN then, as when Rr. Farrugia and Mrs. Muscat were practically near the Pope, the picture was diverted to another event.

    Even RAI did not want to show us Mrs. Muscat acting as Mrs. Farrugia. Lanqas biss jafu jisthu.

  13. sammy says:

    What a liar! Did anyone inform her that this is not some cheap fashion do at Girgenti Palace?

  14. ACD says:

    There’s only one possible conversation he could be having:

    http://i.imgur.com/2cBWkUS.png

  15. Tabatha White says:

    Did Joseph Muscat hire her out for the occasion?

    Is Anglu Farrugia impartial as speaker of the House?

    Everything is so ridiculous, it’s gone beyond the expectation of anything

  16. Fenomenali says:

    The man just in front of Anglu Farrugia is Miguel Ángel Martínez Martínez, the Vice President of the European Parliament. Fenomenali.

  17. Daisy says:

    E noi paghiamo per questi fetenti.

  18. canon says:

    Mrs Muscat must be preparing her address to the pope, “Your Holiness, illum jien gejt. He he he.”

  19. Robert Caruana says:

    Ma tisthix tmur Ruma tiltaqa mal-Papa wara li attakkat il-Katekisti tal-Muzew?

    Mela insietu l-famuz diskors taghha “dey venish in tin air”?

  20. bob-a-job says:

    It was Franco on the line complaining because there was no reserved place for him.

  21. Another John says:

    What a bunch of hypocrites. And I am not referring specifically and only to the Maltese personalities.

    I am referring in general to all those European politicians who have allowed Europe to degenerate into unbridled ‘liberalism’, who have undermined the importance of the traditional family and thus the roots of stable society; who have pushed for abortion and euthanasia.

    And who are ultimately working round the clock for changing European culture as we know it.

    Trash culture brought about by trash politicians. And yet, they have the cheek to attend to such events. Are we supposed to look up to such people? Don’t count on me.

  22. silly says:

    Il-hanina. Unbelievable.

    Il-minuta li dehru, waqqawna ghan-nejk.

  23. silly says:

    Wisq probabbli t-telefonata kienet xi haga hekk:

    “Mara, ixel igri it-tv ghax se nidhru, se nidhru mara. Issa. U tinsiex tafas rekort biex id-dehra taghna tkun on d rekord ta hi.”

  24. Julian Mompalao de Piro says:

    Jaqq

  25. Toni says:

    She was shown on RAI TV adjusting everything from top to bottom/bosom just before meeting the Pope, all the time with a silly smile.

  26. pablo says:

    Is Anglu on the phone with the real Mrs Farrugia? If so, imagine what was being said.

  27. Giovanni says:

    I bet Mrs. Muscat is also using her mobile to text. She is seen looking down at her hands in her lap, holding something. At least I hope it was not a copy of the same-sex adoption law wrapped in her blessed rosary beads.

  28. Ronnie says:

    What a troglodyte!

  29. c says:

    Fejn hu Bundy halli jkantalna Pajjiz tal-Micky Mouse?

  30. Nik says:

    Why didn’t President Coleiro Preca go? First night nerves?

    It is a known fact in diplomacy that events of this nature (royal weddings, state funerals etc) are the best opportunity to build relations, more so than at summits and formal occasions, precisely because there is no specific agenda or political objective.

    As a new head of state, especially one who is completely unknown on the world stage, a very good reason for her absence is necessary.

  31. M.Vassallo says:

    Thanks for this precious information, Daphne.
    You are indeed a BOMBA!
    This is incredible information.
    Vatican officials, please note

  32. Harry Worth says:

    They are an embarrassment.

  33. Gahan says:

    There was a head of state (Korean?) who took a selfie with the Pope.

    Anglu and Michelle looked pathetic to us, knowing that she is the Prime Minister’s wife who lied about some fictitious Catholic “catechist” and poor Anglu who is now without a wifie, I believe.

    Seen on film they looked like a normal couple without Joey’s twins.

  34. Gahan says:

    Why didn’t our prime minister go to the canonisation ceremony? Was it because he knows that Pope Bergoglio, being a Jesuit, would have chided him as a Catholic in public about the double whammy law for homosexual marriage plus adoption “rights”, or is it because he already has a photo with the pontiff?

  35. Peritocracy says:

    “Hawn, ħa’ n-ħallik, ħi. Għax kważi wasalt. Ċaw, ħi. Ċaw, ċaw.”

  36. herbie says:

    Imma possibli!

    When I sometimes think that we have reached rock bottom something as ridiculous as this crops up.

    So it turns out she gate-crashed the event.

    Veru hamalli tal-prima klassi fejn qatt ma raw xejn.

    Hu go fik, ja poplu.

  37. John Grech says:

    These people originated from the jungle.

  38. silly says:

    The General Workers Union’s news website, iNews, keeps up with the most important news of the moment:

    http://www.inewsmalta.com/dart/20140427-akbar-ma-jkun-il-pene-akbar-ans-ta-infedelt

  39. Antoine Vella says:

    So, did she lie to the Pope too? Even in the Vatican, they cannot stop lying.

  40. Joe Fenech says:

    Anglu Farrugia recently trumpeted the democracy and transparency of elections in Azerbaijan.

    http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/30834/democratic-and-transparent-anglu-farrugia-s-verdict-on-azeri-sham-elections-20131021#.U10dVvldWSo

    He reminds one of a politician (and fiscal immigrant) from Berlusconi’s gang, Senator Razzi. Razzi could easily be a politician running on the MLP ticket:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vin1ROu1IIU

  41. Mariella says:

    X’ misthija. Ara naqra min qed jirraprezentana.

  42. Joe Fenech says:

    So now apart from leasing his car, Muscat is also leasing his wife to his mates? Very liberal.

  43. ken il malti says:

    What a cheap and shameful and sneaky bunch of lowlifes.

    No respect or decorum or intelligence shown to anyone.

    Now they want to con not only the Maltese nation but the Pope and the whole world.

    They are drunk with deceit.

    What is that great old saying in Maltese, about their face and their posterior being the same?

  44. Slimiz says:

    This must be the mother of all gatecrashes.

    Il-vera trid tkun Laburist.

  45. Frederick says:

    Amateurs, disgraceful and very very low.

  46. bob-a-job says:

    Qed niehu selfie tat-toqba ta’ widinti

  47. Perpless says:

    Could this really be true? Did Mrs. Muscat really lie about her identity to meet the Pope? Is this not a serious breach of protocol?

    If they have no qualms about lying to Vatican’s diplomatic staff, they would have much less qualms about lying to Maltese people.

    • ken il malti says:

      They are lying to the Maltese people, that is for all to see and experience.

      The real problem is that Malta is being governed by low intelligence incompetent people and lying will only go so far to cover for them.

      A phony surgeon can lie to you and get away with it during the initial visit at his clinic but he will be exposed as fraud during the operation, but that will be too late for you.

    • Calculator says:

      Could the lie have worked, though? Didn’t she meet the Pope with Jo and the twins already?

  48. canon says:

    Now imagine for a moment Angelo Farrugia between Mrs Muscat and President Marie Louis Colerio Preca.

  49. Paddling Duck says:

    Mrs Muscat’s behaviour is as ridiculous as a 14-year-old shouting at a Paceville nightclub bouncer that she’s 17. Tal-misthija!

  50. albona says:

    They do this just out of spite. They are anti-clerical and anti freedom of religion so their aim is to offend. They excel in something at least.

  51. Mark Vassallo says:

    White trash. No more. No less.

  52. verita says:

    And what about Michelle just before meeting the Pope taking all that time arranging her hair ?

  53. reader says:

    Daphne! I’m sure you can find something better to pick up on come on! How about saying something about international affairs and the situation in Ukraine? This is not journalism, this is child play.

    • Scarlet says:

      This is MALTA and this is interesting for all of us Maltese. Why shouldn’t we know about these things? After all, we pay for the stupid bunch.

  54. P Bonnici says:

    Incredible, can’t believe my eyes seeing the Speaker speaking on his mobile phone at that particular moment right there.

  55. il-hsieb tar-ronnie says:

    The prime minIster should make a statement in parliament to explain this abysmal behaviour by his wife.

  56. H.P. Baxxter says:

    That Renzi fellow looks like a prat, forever grinning away. That’s not the face of a prime minister whose country is going through an economic and financial crisis. It makes his solemn declarations sound very hollow.

    And this brings me to the subject of Maltese MEP candidates on television “comedy” programmes…

  57. maria says:

    Imma kemm tiflah tkun redikolu, Ang. Imma skond iz-zokk il-fergha hux. Dejjem trid tidher. U l-ohra x’inhi taghmel ..tfittex ic-centezmi biex ithom lil-Papa ghal-foqra?

    Ara veru urew kemm huma hamalli. U ghala Anglu Farrugia ma hax lill-martu? Zgur li kienet taqta figura tajba aktar minn Mrs Muscat.

  58. katrina says:

    Imma dik il-mara ma tisthi minn xejn? Unbelievable, bhal dak il-pastaz l-iehor fuq il-mobile ftit sekondi qabel ma jiltaqa’ mal-Papa.

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