Malta’s Speaker of the House calls Azerbaijan’s rigged elections “fair, democratic and transparent”. Come on, what do you expect?
Malta’s Speaker of the House says that the elections in Azerbaijan were “fair, democratic and transparent”
The inarticulate, barely coherent and truly dull-witted Anglu Farrugia, Speaker of the House, dispatched himself to monitor, on behalf of the European Academy for Election Observation, the general elections in Malta’s new second-best friend Azerbaijan (the best is Commie China).
Those elections have been widely derided and criticised as a total sham, rigged to give 85% of the vote to the incumbent autocrat, Ilham Aliyev. But Anglu from Malta, supporter of Mintoff/KMB and akkanit tal-Lejper, has of course described them as “fair, democratic and transparent”.
Being so stupid as well as undemocratic in spirit, he didn’t even have the good sense to voice his views in the privacy of his own bedroom. No. He had to shout them out for everybody to hear.
This is a good place to remind you that, thanks to these corrupt f**kwits (and no, I don’t mean Farrugia), the country which rigged its elections to keep an autocrat in power will soon own a sizable chunk of Malta’s newest power station and control, therefore, a large part of our power supply.
Now that Malta’s palms have been decimated by the red palm weevil, we had best begin replacing them with banana plants.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijani_presidential_election,_2013
While Anglu was in Azerbaijan did he take the opportunity to do some promotion for the selling of Maltese passports? It would have made Joseph very pleased.
The state-owned Azeri company SOCAR Trading SA (STSA) will own 20% of the Electrogas Consortium, which will build a new 200MW Siemens power station and which will store (in Malta) and supply gas to the new power station AND to the existing BWSC plant. The following is an extract from a note prepred by Equity Development, a UK independent investment research company, about the “Malta win” by Gasol, dated 14 October 2013:
“STSA has joined the consortium as an equity participant and also as a supplier of gas and lessor of the FSU to the project. LNG will be supplied to a mid-sized FSU, which will be docked at Delimara. From this, re-gasified product will be delivered to the existing 149MW plant operated by Enemalta and also to the new 200MW Electrogas owned and operated plant.”
So, STSA will:
1. Supply gas to the ENTIRE power station in Delimara, new (Siemens) and old (BWSC) plants included.
2. Have a monopoly on the gas storage for the only power station in Malta, and therefore Malta’s security of supply for gas will depend on STSA.
All electricity that will be generated in a power station in Malta will effectively be generated from gas supplied by STSA, which is, effectively, an Ilham Aliyev direct interest in Malta, fully under his control.
It’s pretty obvious that once the new plant is installed and up and running (will it ever?), Siemens will have no further interest in the project. I expect the same on the part of Gasan and Tumas, who will probably sell their interest.
Gasol is financed out of bonds, which are, most probably, held by Azeris.
The only interested party will be STSA, since it will have a gas supply agreement for 18 years, the first five years of which are at a fixed price, while the rest would be required to compensate for the sacrifices made in the first 5 years. At that point, expect STSA to become the 100% owner of Electrogas.
It’s going to be boring watching the Eurovision every May, seeing Malta and Azerbaijan exchange their douze points – even when Malta is represented by Renato and Mary Spiteri.
I quoted from Equity Development’s note above.
I noticed yet another important detail in the note.
The note says that “STSA has joined the consortium as an equity participant and also as a supplier of gas and lessor of the FSU to the project.”
So the FSU will be provided by STSA under lease.
Which means that the FSU will not be owned by the project (Electrogas Consortium) but by STSA. Did the government of Joseph Muscat and Konrad Mizzi guarantee also the capex of the FSU?
And why is the FSU part of the capital cost of Euro 370 million, if Labour ridiculed the PN when they said that the cost of the LNG carriers was not to be added to the capital cost?
How presumptuous and amateurish of Farrugia to pass judgement on an election in a country about which he knows nothing.
An election observation mission needs to observe the preparation for the election, including voters registration, registration of candidates, campaign, election day, counting and post election period.
It is usually composed of a core team, long-term observers and short-term observers. Anglu Farrugia was in Azerbaijan for a maximum of four days and is therefore in no position to pass judgement on these elections. Indeed fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
botom, you’re indeed very right, but surely you mean – ‘Anglu rushes in where angels fear to tread’?
Angels may fear to tread, but Anglu is too thick to know he should not.
In other words, an election observation mission is like a “tuks force” composed of various experts. We know that Anglu Farrugia has difficulty with the concept of a “tuks force.”
I respectfully reccomend that in future, Mr. Speaker should preferably open his mouth only at meal times, although I am sure that arrangements could be made to set up an IV drip to avoid that eventuality.
So we’ll soon be hearing of ‘good practice’ sharing between Azerbaijan and Malta so that Labour officials can learn how to rig elections and stay in power indefinitely.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/azerbaijan-releases-election-results-before-the-polls-even-open-8869732.html
So much for Anglu’s electoral analysis skills.
Your last comment would have had me in fits were the situation not so tragic.
I wonder how good old ‘Tuks-Force’ Anglu pronounces it?
Aberjaizan maybe?