Comments on: Malta’s Speaker of the House calls Azerbaijan’s rigged elections “fair, democratic and transparent”. Come on, what do you expect?

By: ciccio

ciccio — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 20:33:10 +0000

In reply to botom. 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."

By: Neil

Neil — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 18:49:07 +0000

I wonder how good old ‘Tuks-Force’ Anglu pronounces it?

Aberjaizan maybe?

By: observer

observer — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 15:01:01 +0000

In reply to botom. Angels may fear to tread, but Anglu is too thick to know he should not.

By: AE

AE — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 11:27:51 +0000

Your last comment would have had me in fits were the situation not so tragic.

By: Pia

Pia — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 09:28:10 +0000

In reply to botom.

botom, you’re indeed very right, but surely you mean – ‘Anglu rushes in where angels fear to tread’?

By: Bullivant

Bullivant — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 09:02:59 +0000

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.

By: Calculator

Calculator — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 07:49:57 +0000

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.

By: Osservatore

Osservatore — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 07:18:00 +0000

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.

By: ciccio

ciccio — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 01:55:06 +0000

In reply to ciccio.

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?

By: botom

botom — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 23:48:39 +0000

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.