Simple minds are pleased with simple things, mandango70

@ jozef – yes

Not that you were a bright spark even on Chamber of Commerce Council.

The Nationalist Party was alerted that the target was to be JPO in the final “bomba” rumour which was doing the rounds. Dr Gonzi was unaware of the contract because JPO lied to him and to others.

Based on this leak, the cat and mouse game commenced with JPO being given instructions to confront Alfred Sant’s “lie” – the Nationalist Party actually thought it was a lie, remember – first by JPO turning up at Sant’s press conference in front of Mepa, then chasing him around Gozo and Mistra and finally the infamous challenge of JPO turning up as a journalist in the Alfred Sant debate, which had to be postponed to the next day as Alfred Sant refused to have JPO posing as a journalist.

Had the Nationalist Party known of the existence of the contract, they certainly would not have exposed JPO to such a possible showdown with Sant. They would have dealt with it differently, and they certainly would not have supported JPO.

It was on the final televised prerecorded debate that Alfred Sant produced the contract which was broadcast at the same time as the final mass meetings of the PN and MLP, and therefore a good percentage of the electorate was unaware of this contract until after the election, as no one could report about the final debate during the Friday ” day of reflection”.

Marlene, do you now understand? Or do you need some graphics and perhaps a Power Point presentation to work out what was leaked to whom, and who was lying.

One proverb, which struck me most and keeps coming back to me, was ‘tiftah halqek u tohrog papru’.

Geez, how stupid can you be?

The Nationalist Party simply found out that JPO was a political target (which, in Labour’s case, typically means a mud-slinging campaign)… not that JPO had a contract in hand.

Another one who did not check the facts.