“ħaqq għ*xx il-Madonna”: Law Commission President blasphemes in Republic Street

Published: March 17, 2016 at 3:58pm

The president of the government’s Law Reform Commission, Franco Debono, was in Republic Street, Valletta, today in the company of Alfred Zammit, who hosts the Labour Party TV station show Kalamita, and Frank Zammit, long-time personal secretary of disgraced former European Commissioner John Dalli, who is now a Labour local councillor in Marsa.

While these photographs were being taken, the president of the government’s Law Reform Commission talked incessantly and was overheard blaspheming loudly to his companions, using the expression ħaqq għoxx il-Madonna (literal translation: damn the Madonna’s cunt). I apologise for quoting the language factually, but I think it’s time to put things into perspective in this country.

Specifically, the president of the government’s Law Reform Commission said: “ħaqq għoxx il-Madonna, lili misshom bgħatu“. (Literal translation: “Damn the Madonna’s cunt, they should have sent me.”)

It is not normal for a government to appoint a substandard individual of that nature to a position like that, and it is not normal for somebody who holds high public office – especially high public office in the reform of legislation – to stand about in the capital city’s main drag, in the company of absurd and dubious individuals, using language like ħaqq għoxx il-Madonna.

Two days ago, people in this weird island were given a shocking reminder that what passes for normal in Malta does not pass for normal anywhere else. Well, there are a few places where it would pass for normal, but let’s not go there.

This can’t go on. This island society is mad and twisted.

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