What I meant to say is that he might support another person to lead PN. Today’s statements saying he will support anyone but Gonzi. I know I’m speculating, but who knows what is going on behind the scenes.

Where is Dalli for example?

I would leave the country

I don’t think that is possible.

Why show a ‘mid-term’ report card? Was it his best report card he received throughout his school years?

The reversal of the Cabinet double salary only goes to prove how down to earth politicians like Jean Pierre Farrugia are indispensible to rebuild the Nationalist Party.

However the PM is wrong to play petty politics and not call a vote of confidence just because Alfred Sant once called one.

On the contrary, he should call a vote immediately and force Debono to make his final ignoble act of his short political career by bringing down his own government . Believe me Gonzi has more chance winning an election in March then he does next next year when our island will be in the middle of the economic gales blowing through Europe.

I doubt that a personality disorder would be enough to constitute unsound mind, even though by definition such a disorder results in a an inability to function within social norms.

Patients who are certified schizophrenics have been in fact adjudged to be of sound mind by courts, despite expert psychiatric advice to the contrary.

[Daphne – Yes, and the Norwegian mass murderer has just been assessed as sane.]

However there could be more to this, since while it is likely that Debono suffers from Narcissistic Personality Disorder, one cannot and should not exclude that he could be co morbidly or exclusively suffering from Bipolar Mood Disorder (aka manic depression) with the current episode being mania, since part of what we are seeing are delusions of grandeur.

The fact he chooses something he relates to his classmate within childhood makes evident what’s going on in his confused mind. He needs help.

Before this volcano erupted, the real dilemma was whether PN will play the election card before or after the economic shxx hit the fan, i.e. if the economic situation started to worsen, Gonzi would call an early election.

Franco Debono has now elected himself as Mr Scapegoat, and done the PN a favour because an early election will be blamed on him.

On the other side of the chess board, as you rightly point out (but maybe wrongly assume it has been 100% premeditated), Franco Debono’s only hope is to topple the party leadership.

He might succeed if he does this by winning the right allies in these troubled times. After all if the PN goes down we can expect a reshuffle of the main party leadership roles.

[Daphne – He might succeed? Why, because there are a lot of people in the party who think he will make a great prime minister or that he doesn’t need care? Be real.]

I now realise that all that is happening was planned already and PN skillfully managed to get the timings right.