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Dr Joe Borg and J Dalli were Catholics just as much as Dr Tonio Borg.

They escaped the persecution of the EU Socialists and their secularist allies only because these MEPs are at liberty to choose which Catholics to persecute. Recklessly they targetted Dr Tonio Borg and failed miserably. Prudently they had not even made the attempt in the case the other two Malta appointees.

They would have been wiser and they would have saved face had they been as discrete in the case of Dr Tonio Borg.

Are you living on Mars, he declared he will leave his principles at home.

Yes, I’m pleased that he got a good majority.

I never doubted Dr.Tonio Borg’s honesty, what I don t agree is that he should have given in to their pressure.

Now all we can do is wish him the best in his new appointment.

Anonymous Mr Jackie

This is a (failed) case of blatant discrimination against Dr Tonio Borg attempting to deprive him of the job of EU Commissioner because he is a Catholic who insists on his UN fundamental universal human right to observe in public the tenets of the religion he is entitled to practice in another article of the Charter. Check in your copy of the Charter.

Dr Tonio has reaped what he has sown. He has been accepted and acclaimed as Malta’s EU Commissioner by an absolute majority of votes. End of argument.

Is a majority of 105 acceptable to you as a convincingly large majority for Dr Tonio Borg to accept the post to which he was nominated by the people of Malta?

In spite of your opinion to the contrary Dr Borg has stuck to his principles and he did not go against his beliefs.

He promised the hostile MEPs that what they saw is what they are going to get. He was voted in because they had no legitimate ground for doubting his honesty.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Dr T Borg’s nomination has been convincingly approved to the dismay of the loud-mouthed “hodor”, abortionists, gays etc.

It was done in Brussels, not in Malta or the Vatican State. Evidently Dr T Borg merits as a very good politician are recognized beyond Maltese and Vatican circles.

As the Romans said it: Excusatio non petita, accusatio manifesta (Tr: An excuse that no one asked for (is) a manifested admission)

It must be very humiliating for Tonio Borg, knowing that he went against his beliefs, to please them, and probably he won’t be making it just the same.

If by any chance he is chosen by a small majority, I hope that Dr. Tonio will not accept the post, knowing that it is against the wish of a large number.

That will show the E.U that, true we might be the smallest country, but a proud one, and begging favours from no one.

John Dali and Joe Borg before him are staunch Catholics, so your paranoid delusions don’t stack up, Francis.

It is not his faith but his pronouncements that are at odds with a commissioner for all Europeans, including many people who do not take orders from the Vatican.