Agreed. I think an election between Simon Busuttil, Mario de Marco, Chris Said and Francis Zammit Dimech should be fine, as long as we end up with, say a 70-20-5-5-% split between the votes.

http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/inside-angelina-jolie-and-brad-pitts-romantic-dinner-in-malta-2011156

Look at Angolina Jolie’s facial expression to see how much excited she was having Franco ruining her well planned intimate night out with Brad without the kids.

Why do people call him a peasant?

@ Baxter. Agreed, but Ray Bugeja has no history of note in the PN. We don’t need our own little Berlusconi. In the recent past we’ve been critical of the party for not pre-screening its candidates for parliamentary elections, the consequences of which are now historical facts.

The pre-screening / track record in politics of a partly leader is even more critical.

I can’t believe the welcome he’s received by some on the internet (most of whom are probably not PN supporters). If I were buying a car, arriving at a shortlist would take much deeper analysis than the few words we’ve seen about Bugeja in The Times.

At this stage I have no personal preference for the names bandied about from within the party. Bugeja’s self-nomination however seems like an opportunistic move which will turn the process into a circus.

He knows how to stand firm though. The aggro will come in time. Remember that Simon Busuttil’s just spent nine years working in the most clinical, courteous, professional and bland institution in the world. If you’re ever seen the European Parliament in session, you’ll know what I’m talking about.

Three minutes by Nigel Farage, Jean-Marie Le Pen or our own Joseph Muscat are the the highlight of the year for MEPs.

Then he came to Malta was was faced with wall-to-wall stupidity and hamallagni.

He can face Muscat down though. That’s all that matters. They never had a one-on-one debate during the campaign.

The droning voice can’t be worse than Lawrence Gonzi’s. Busuttil just needs to find that fire inside him and speak from the heart. He’s got it in the right place.

As long as he doesn’t drink the Kool-Aid. Mario de Marco already has, apparently.

[Daphne – Yes, Yasmine, you guessed right. Ramona Attard, ‘the odious female journalist’, is now Chief of Staff to the Parliamentary Secretary for EU Funds, 27-year-old Ian Borg, within Louis Grech’s Ministry for Europe.]

130,000 people who voted PN expect the PN to wake up from its coma and start protesting vociferously about certain government appolintments. We have done our part now it is up to our party to move ahead without delay otherwise it will be too late.

I think the way ministries have been reorganised and the gratuitous and irresponsible handing out of important posts to inexperienced Labourites has already taken us much closer to the Mintoff era than most of us dare to contemplate.