Comments on: That's what it's all about

By: ciccio2011

ciccio2011 — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 11:22:45 +0000

In reply to ciccio2011. Antoine, what I mean is the implementation of that Yes vote into a law, of course, and that the government must pass it smoothly and democratically.

By: Antoine Vella

Antoine Vella — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 22:34:49 +0000

In reply to ciccio2011. But ciccio, I haven't heard anyone, liberal or conservative, deny that the Yes vote won. This is one of the main differences between this and the EU referendum.

By: Luigi

Luigi — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 22:33:53 +0000

As the old aphorism goes “People who live in glass houses should not throw stones”. PN diehel fi sqaq

By: davidg

davidg — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:50:37 +0000

I honestly believe that the Yes vote and absenteeism in the divorce referendum also reflects a form of protest against the government, although some state that it is against the Catholic Church. The PN should be smart enough to shoulder responsibility and seek to know what really concerns and affects society.

By: ciccio2011

ciccio2011 — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 15:22:56 +0000

In reply to Richard Muscat.

I agree with your view and Mario Demarco’s in full.

I am sure that, faced with a situation like what we have now, the late Dr Guido De Marco would have emphasised the concept of “democracy” and its meaning and relevance to situations like this.

He would have gone to great lengths to persuade the parties (in this case, the conservatives) that what is at stake here is democracy itself.

In my view, accepting that the Yes vote has won is the ESSENTIAL democratic decision in this case.

I am confident, and I know, that the conservatives are sufficiently liberal on the concept of democracy to understand and accept this view.

By: Richard Muscat

Richard Muscat — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:16:40 +0000

I would like to add this little piece to your bigger quote from the same very good article by Mario de Marco in which he indicates the way forward for the PN:

“With the referendum behind us, our efforts as a party should be to ensure that the liberal and conservative elements within our party continue working together. The process of implementing the will of the people as expressed in last Saturday’s referendum should in itself provide an opportunity for this healing process to take place.”

As a party man, I hope the message is seriously taken by the powers that be, for the good of both the PN and its wide spectrum of followers.

By: gianni

gianni — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:09:38 +0000

I seriously think that it is time the the old luggage of the PN steps down and do what Austin Gatt and Marie Louise Coleiro Preca will do in two years’ time. MPs who have been in parliament from the 1987 and 1992 election should not contest the next general election since they will be a liability and not an asset to the PN as the divorce referendum proves.

By: chavsRus

chavsRus — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:07:10 +0000

Have we made peace with the Demarcos, then? Or is it only the distaff side that gets up your nose? (to be honest, I don’t blame you).

[Daphne – Mario and I have been friends for 30 years. We were at sixth form college together. We never fell out, so there was never any need to make peace. Families are not an indivisible whole, and you are not talking about children in a playground.]