Who is Angelo Farrugia? [title inspired by 'Min hu Evelyn Costa']

Wouldn’t you like to know? Here it is, straight from the horse’s mouth, and written or proofread by Labour’s own Lara Croft – lifted from the exciting website www.anglufarrugia.com and thrillingly cavalier with capital letters and punctuation, and all the rules of grammar and syntax, to say nothing of style and substance. How did they give this man a university degree? Are they really going so cheap?

“Known as ‘Anglu’, a lawyer by profession. Born At Mosta, Malta on 29/12/1955. Married to Carmen nee Zammit (also from Mosta) on the 26th March 1983. They have a daughter Caroline 23years old also a lawyer. He lives at Mosta and his vast experience in the profession includes that of a Police Officer Superintendent between 1977-1996. Today he’s a practicing lawyer running his legal profession in Mosta.”

“He Entered Politics for the first time under the MLP ticket in October 1996 General Elections. Where he was elected in Parliament from the 11th Electoral district. During the Labour government 1996-1998 he was Chairman for the committee of the consideration of Bills of the House of Representatives, and also chairman of all committees of the House of Representatives which appointment gave him added voting powers when preceding the Plenary as the then speaker, was not an elected speaker. During this two year government period was also head of OSCE Parliamentary Assembly delegation.”

“He was re-elected during the General election in September of 1998 as Member of Parliament and few weeks after he contested within the Party, the Deputy leader for Parliamentary Affairs where be polled 24% of the delegates votes. He again served in the Committee in the consideration of bills in Parliament and was appointed by the leader of Labour Party, Dr. Alfred Sant, Shadow Minister for Justice which he is still serving to the present day.”

“Between 1998 and today He was appointed on Various important missions by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and also by the EU commission, International observer for various General Elections, in particular countries that include, the violet revolution that took place in Giorgia (1999), Presidential Election in Palestinian Authority (2004) following the demise of then president Yasser Arafat. The Presidential Election in the USA (2004), the referendum for independence from Serbia in Montenegro (2006) and the Presidential and Parliamentary Elections in Zambia 2006.”

“He is very active in the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly where he participates in the Standing Committee on Human Rights” – [ajma hej, we wonder whether he drew on his past experience in Lorry Pullicino’s force] – “and took part in various conferences within the EU and the Commonwealth, the most recent one held in Capetown South Africa. Recently he formed part in the Maltese Parliamentary delegation that went to India where he participated in direct talks on the Nuclear Iranian crisis.He was re-elected in 2003 General elections for the third time from the 11th district, where afterwards he contested the leadership race within the Labour Party where he obtained more than 26% of the votes.”

“Today he is one of the main Political exponents of the Labour Party where in his ferocious and strong speeches that he delivers in the Maltese Parliament and in the Public. He was the promoter in disclosing scandals within the Nationalist Party in power, the most recent one being the taking out of court documents from the court buildings in Valletta, to offices of Ministry of Justice. Writes regularly in Daily and Sundays Newspapers on subject of Political nature that include foreign Politics. His hobbies include reading, researching about Maltese of Abroad and Jogging.”