How could the government or its Prime Minister dissolve Parliament before the termination of its tenure without being challenged and defeated or when the country is doing well without insurmountable problems as is happening in many other European countries?

Were the Prime Minister to do as you said, he would have been irresponsible because he would have thrown the country into oblivion because the opposition was never prepared to govern. Of course it is prepared to take power but not to govern.

Power and good governance are two very different things, my friend.

Hindsight is a wondrous thing, eh?

Years ago, Austin Gatt had demanded that Tonio Mizzi and Farrugia Sacco resign from the organizations that they were involved in.

They chose to ignore the demand. I remember watching Marlene Mizzi at the time, whining about the injustice of such a demand on Super One TV.

Those rif rafs remain in their stables, spoken like a true blue.

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Yes but MUSCAT agreed and in fact stated that he would keep the “good” points of the budget, i.e. he would keep them all because the budget was/is a GOOD one?

Perhaps he went to see whether the Pope’s thing on the computer is better or worse than his blog, so that he could complain to “You know who” and ask HIM to stop the Pope – at once.

I’ve tried all sorts of mental contortions to reconcile the two, and still the discrepancy persists.

Can you please come to my aid?

[Daphne – Parliament is always in recess in the summer. Didn’t you know? And when it is not, it usually means serious trouble, like the summer of 1998.]

As opposed to PL propaganda ?

The article also has reference to the previous request for Judge Farrugia Sacco to resign from the MOC, which he obviously ignored