There you have your answer, Jeffrey
Mario de Marco is interviewed in The Sunday Times today:
Asked about Nationalist MP Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando’s recent allegations that Mr Cachia Caruana colluded with Labour in 1996, Dr de Marco said: “All I can say is that I have always known Mr Cachia Caruana to be a person who gave his life towards the service of the country.”
He said it was Dr Pullicino Orlando’s prerogative to substantiate the allegations, but he always considered Mr Cachia Caruana to be a person with only one aim: “to be of service to his country”.
“And he has done that infallibly,” Dr de Marco said.
On a poignant note, he also criticised Dr Pullicino Orlando for using the name of the late Emeritus President Guido de Marco to substantiate an argument that PN and government officials “cavort” with a blogger who derides Nationalist icons:
“I find it inopportune that my father’s memory was brought into the fray on more than one occasion during and after the Richard Cachia Caruana motion debacle.
“My father’s memory thankfully does not need defending. It stands on its own merits. The last thing my father would have ever wanted to see is a divided party or his name being used in a divisive and opportunistic motion.
“He suffered too much to see the PN in government to ever tolerate this. Moreover, I know that despite occasional differences of opinion or style, he held Richard Cachia Caruana in the highest regard and that the respect was mutual and longstanding.”
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Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando Smith tastelessly dragged Guido de Marco’s name into his crazy, confused parliamentary speech on Monday, 18 June as a reason why he was voting against Richard Cachia Caruana.
I had criticised “Nationalist Party icon” Guido de Marco, therefore Richard Cachia Caruana must pay the price for that. Yes, it’s a complete non sequitur, but Pullicino Orlando Smith isn’t normal, as his interview in The Sunday Times more than amply confirms, even for the last Doubting Thomases, today.
The ludicrousness of JPOS’s position – declaring himself in defence of Guido de Marco (who cannot now state his own case) and consequently against Richard Cachia Caruana, when Professor de Marco’s own son was sitting by him on the same benches in thorough disapproval and then voting against Jeffrey’s motion – seems to have escaped JPOS’s notice.
It did not escape most people’s.
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Today’s interview with JPOS was a waste of precious newspaper space. No substance whatsoever and nothing we did not know already.