While on the subject of mental illness, and how it is NOT stigmatised in Malta

John Dalli at his Portomaso apartment, bought with his salary as a cabinet minister.

John Dalli is the archetypal illustration of how, far from being stigmatised in Malta, mental illness is normalised, with those who are mentally ill or who have serious personality disorders permitted to run riot in public life while everybody conspires in the consensus that what are clear signs of mental illness are justified reactions in the circumstances. No need to name names when considering the political events of the last three or four years in particular.

The Opposition leader has been constrained to issue a statement this afternoon.

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Statement by the Leader of the Opposition Simon Busuttil

It seems that for John Dalli, betraying his own party and causing untold damage to Malta’s reputation in Brussels is not enough. He now wants to fabricate lies about me.

Let me make this clear. My so-called ‘friendship’ with Giovanni Kessler, the Director General of OLAF, is a figment of John Dalli’s imagination. Still less did I ever attend the same ‘clubs’ or ‘groups’ as Mr Kessler, as John Dalli alleges.

I spoke to Mr Kessler for the first time ever last week when I happened to take the same flight as him to Brussels. He was returning to Brussels after giving evidence in Court in Malta, whereas I was flying to Brussels to attend the EPP Summit.

If John Dalli wants to descend deeper into public embarrassment and continue to live a lie, he is free to do so. But he should not draw me into his lies.