Rival comment of the day
Posted by Alfred Bugeja, on this site, this evening:
Franco Debono should refer back to the PN electoral manifesto, find the sections on justice and the police, and make sure that the promises made therein are implemented during the current legislature.
If he has other items on the shopping list, he should propose them during the next PN General Council for inclusion in the next electoral manifesto.
If the PN does not accept his shopping list he is free to form his own party and include his proposals in his electoral manifesto, or join Labour and try his bullying tactics there and see how he gets on.
Democracy is not about personal agendas and holding government to ransom. Democracy is the will of the majority.
In the last general election the majority chose the PN’s electoral manifesto and that is what Franco Debono is duty bound to help implement.
All the rest is just the fruit of his manual-fitting narcissistic personality.
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Spot on.
I must say that a couple of disgruntled PN backbenchers have more proposals than the whole LP.
If FD (or any other disgruntled backbencher) had to form another party and succeed in getting elected, those votes will come straight from PN’s turf.
We are possibly looking at the beginning of a long period of LP in government.
The only reason I think that this scenario won’t take place is that the huge egos and psychological instabiliy of said backbenchers will lead them nowhere in the long run.
Franco keeps harping about advanced democracies and parliament as the supreme institution.
Does he ignore the opposition we’re stuck with?
I wonder whether the hurry is to resolve Joseph’s problem before the elections.
It will be extremely interesting to see whether he’ll allow a free vote this time. And what the shadow justice minister has to say.
The shadow justice minister has the same agenda. He raised these same issues time and again. Franco and Herrera are a match made in heaven. You should see how they get along when Parliament is in session.
What’s really funny is that in his rush to get this motion presented, Franco Debono forgot to include a couple of items which he had ranted about in Parliament and in court over the past few months.
For example, he had recently called for plea bargaining to be introduced in the higher courts, a proposal which was welcomed by the minister.