Why was Franco Debono selected to represent Malta at the GRECO plenary meeting last month?
Franco Debono celebrating with Labour supporters and carried shoulder high on 10 March. But being given a public post, a salary, car and chauffeur out of public funds, in return for what he did is not corruption in his view.
At the Council of Europe’s GRECO (Group of States Against Corruption) plenary meeting in Strasbourg last month, Franco Debono was there for Malta.
I can just imagine how many scenes he made, laying siege to people and hammering that phone, until he was sent. I don’t have to imagine the neurotic scenes themselves, and I do have some pity for the people who now have to endure his hysterical, monomaniacal neurosis after gloating with pleasure for three or four years as he inflicted himself on their enemies.
It’s their turn now.
The irony, of course, just passes Franco Debono by, largely because he’s so far up himself that he can’t see daylight let alone see himself as he really is.
He goes to a GRECO meeting on corruption when the only reason he is there at all is because of corruption. Oh, let’s see now: he probably thinks that he didn’tget his public post as Law Commissioner, his car, his chauffeur, his salary and his permission to review Malta’s entire body of legislation in his spare time, while working full-time as defence counsel to drug addicts and thieves, because he cooperated with the Labour Opposition to bring down the government from the government benches where he sat.
He probably thinks he deserves it, is fit for purpose, and the Labour government is merely recognising his great worth, integrity, credibility, respectability, intellectual prowess and knowledge of all fields of law.
And even if he did somehow, in his little heart of hearts, see that there is a direct connection between his behaviour over the last four years and his being rewarded for it without any basis in merit, just like Jeffrey Pullicino and Jesmond Mugliett, then he wouldn’t class it as corruption.
Ma tarax: being given a public post and privileges in return for helping propel to power the person who gave them to you is not corruption.
People of Franco Debono’s mentality see public posts, which are exactly what it says on the tin, in the same terms as knighthoods bestowed by the queen.
Meanwhile, here’s the report of that GRECO meeting, in which points 11, 12 and 13 refer to Malta.
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Franco Debono is Whistleblower Against Corrupt and Knavish Organisations (WACKO)
…while working full-time as defence counsel to drug addicts and thieves.
You forgot the oil dealer.
Franco Debono has also been engaged as consultant by the parliamentary secretary for animal rights.
Did he go to Strasbourg alone?
In all probability he went alone. Who would volunteer to accompany him?
Brilliant. Hu gew fik ja bniedem bla principji.
The worst mistake Franco Debono made was when he waved his Form II report card in front of the PBS cameras to show what genius he was from childhood. He never realised that he was stating unitentionally that he always beat Joseph to it and that Joseph could not present the public with evidence of a single achievement like he did.
When I heard about this for the first time, I thought people were just taking the mickey.
Debono does not see corruption. He sees his appointment as a divine right.
Franco Debono seems to be on the silent side of issues lately, perhaps he has decided not to be as much of a public person as he used to be.