Comments on: The president exists for one reason only: to represent the state https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/the-president-exists-for-one-reason-only-to-represent-the-state/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Sun, 04 May 2014 15:32:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jozef https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/the-president-exists-for-one-reason-only-to-represent-the-state/#comment-1866748 Sun, 04 May 2014 15:32:17 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=46411#comment-1866748 In reply to gosh.

The signs are all there. It’s uncanny how Labour align themselves in an instant to the dominant ideology.

If it was the Gemahariya, APSO and the DPRK, now it’s China.

]]> By: gosh https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/the-president-exists-for-one-reason-only-to-represent-the-state/#comment-1841192 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 12:50:57 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=46411#comment-1841192 Are we seeing the start of a Presidential stance against the formal church? First by our president not using St. John’s co-cathedral, and now her not attending the canonisation at the Vatican.We are heading to the 1980’s at a faster pace than I expected.

]]> By: ciccio https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/the-president-exists-for-one-reason-only-to-represent-the-state/#comment-1836265 Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:06:49 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=46411#comment-1836265 If Muscat really believes that Nelson Mandela is a beacon of freedom and that it was worth attending his funeral, then he should believe the same about Pope John Paul II, who led to the collapse of communist states and to the democratic opening of Eastern Europe, and should have attended his canonisation.

]]> By: Calculator https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/the-president-exists-for-one-reason-only-to-represent-the-state/#comment-1835458 Tue, 29 Apr 2014 14:04:18 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=46411#comment-1835458 http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-04-29/news/popes-canonisationpresident-government-work-in-mysterious-ways-4789469184/

Glad to see someone else has come out and said how protocol should work, that Farrugia only represented Parliament and that Michelle does not even have a role (thankfully the Vatican diplomatic corps seated her accordingly).

]]> By: Jozef https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/the-president-exists-for-one-reason-only-to-represent-the-state/#comment-1834984 Tue, 29 Apr 2014 12:24:29 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=46411#comment-1834984 http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-04-29/news/it-would-have-beenfitting-to-see-coleiro-preca-attend-canonisation-mgr-scicluna-4789108737/

I like this guy.

‘…it was a pity the President could not make it since I am sure that many Maltese Catholics would have loved to see the President represent them during Sunday’s historic occasion…’

He doesn’t specify whether she actually does.

Muscat meantime, sent Michelle ‘in her role as prime minister’s wife, as happens in other countries’.

Qishom gallinar.

]]> By: Kristine Bonnici https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/the-president-exists-for-one-reason-only-to-represent-the-state/#comment-1834748 Tue, 29 Apr 2014 11:25:19 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=46411#comment-1834748 This and the “Mrs Farrugia” debacle are symptomatic of this legislation. Improvise and make it up as you go along.

]]> By: Calculator https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/the-president-exists-for-one-reason-only-to-represent-the-state/#comment-1834595 Tue, 29 Apr 2014 10:44:04 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=46411#comment-1834595 In reply to Observer.

Well, there were quite a few dignitaries present who wouldn’t have been there if that were the case.

Besides, the Vatican state invited the President of Malta, a post currently occupied by Coleiro Preca, not Coleiro Preca herself.

]]> By: Katrin https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/the-president-exists-for-one-reason-only-to-represent-the-state/#comment-1834586 Tue, 29 Apr 2014 10:40:56 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=46411#comment-1834586 Pardon my ignorance, but don’t we have a vice-President too? Why did Dolores Cristina not go? Or what is the role of a vice-President?

]]> By: Calculator https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/the-president-exists-for-one-reason-only-to-represent-the-state/#comment-1833928 Tue, 29 Apr 2014 08:08:13 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=46411#comment-1833928 In reply to Freedom5.

The Peru missionary work is actually rather insulting to the state of Peru. It’s just like saying, in the most condescending way possible, that their situation is so desperate, that even our Head of State had to give a hand.

]]> By: il busu https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/the-president-exists-for-one-reason-only-to-represent-the-state/#comment-1833926 Tue, 29 Apr 2014 08:07:55 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=46411#comment-1833926 Daphne, when Marie Louise Coleiro was nominated for the presidency you predicted that she was going to be the worst President so far.

That same prediction is becoming a reality less than a month from assuming role of President.

This whole affair is one big PR mess which really embarrasses the whole nation.

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